Let’s hope this gets around
Charles “Chuckles” Krauthammer, having noticed that Obama is doing pretty well in the primaries, takes a break (but only in part!) from his usual Clinton-bashing beat:
And now, in the most amazing trick of all, a silver-tongued freshman senator has found a way to sell hope. To get it, you need only give him your vote. Barack Obama is getting millions.
This kind of sale is hardly new. Organized religion has been offering a similar commodity — salvation — for millennia.
Of course, the hope for a better future is something only a devious black man would try to sell. And confidence in a nation’s ability to get things done provided some policies are changed isn’t something that anyone other than Obama would pitch. Well, Obama and this dead guy we guess — the one Chuckles told us about in 2004:
Reagan was optimistic about America amid the cynicism and general retreat of the post-Vietnam era because he believed unfashionably that America was both great and good[.]
Look everyone, it’s morning again at America’s Even More Shittiest Website™: [Careful! This means the quote below is from Free Republic people, not Chuckles, ok?]
It takes more than a pretty video and a bunch of celebrities singing to make a great president. It takes a person who understands where the true greatness of America lies.
Long before anyone ever heard of Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan challenged Americans to hope, to dream, to believe….
In themselves.
He brought change. He told us that “yes we can”.
So yes, we can praise a man for outlining his vision, based on optimism (and made-up anecdotes) for the country. And yes, we can praise a man for his rhetorical skills. Well, except for, as someone at AEMSW™ put it, you know: [Again with the Free Republic, not even Chuckles deserves to be confused with them*.]
Obama is a fine orator. However, the ideas he is “orating” in such a fine manner are Marxist at worst and National Socialist at best, which means they are doomed to failure.
So there you have it: Yes we can control the means of production. And yes we can kill all the Jews of National Socialism. [Edited to identify source of last quote more clearly-er. Edited again for same purpose.]
* Actually, yes.
So he’s saying that Obama will be no more popular in America than Jesus? Boy will the Republicans ever be relieved!
When the only tool in your toolbox is a Krauthammer, after awhile everything begins to smell like a head of rotten cabbage.
YES WE CAN HAS
Insane hogs rooting in a trough of hatred and stupidity, vomiting up their indigestible slop as conservative wisdom.
National Socialist…Where have I heard that before?
N..A..Z..I? So he’s commie at worst and Nazi at best?
Stay Classy, Chuckles!
(I’ll bet Loadpants has dreams about the ‘viability’ of Krautie’s wiener. Or maybe he’s just dreaming of wieners covered with kraut? Only the Doughy one knows for sure.)
NO YOU CAN’T HAS!
From the comments @ RB’s Crooked Timber link:
Yes it is, stostosto, yes it is.
http://yeswecanhas.com/
http://yeswecanhas.com/
Ick. I don’t want to take the advice of LOLcats. They’re supposed to be stupid and confused.
Here then, take some advice from an angry white man …
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/2008198091324
Look, I can make stuff up too!
“However, the ideas he is “orating” in such a fine manner are [Vegan] at worst and [Vegitarian] at best, which means they are doomed to failure.”
“However, the ideas he is “orating” in such a fine manner are [octahedral] at worst and [tetrahedral] at best, which means they are doomed to failure.”
“However, the ideas he is “orating” in such a fine manner are [octahedral] at worst and [tetrahedral] at best, which means they are doomed to failure.”
5 of Ds
I just spent a good 30 seconds trying to figure out the difference between your second and third sentences. God damn it I need it get a life.
He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.
Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader
Oh, Angry White Man, why must you suffer so? Maybe if you weren’t so emotional you’d have a better life.
The fact is, bow-chicka-WOW-WOW.
Hah, sorry pedestrian. I got a little itchy with the “paste” function.
eaglephin at the Free Republic:
Reagan was a Chicano labor activist? Who knew!
Gary, I see you’re finally seeing the light.
J-
Bob the Builder is a Chicano labor activist?
Naw, it’s cool. I was making fun of myself, not you. 🙂
t4t,
That would be Handy Manny, actually.
Isn’t it about time for Ron Paul to admit defeat and order all of his followers to commit seppuku now?
UpChuck’s being extra cute.
As the civil rights movement became more and more successful, hysterics like Chuckles decided the brown folks must be getting help from the commies. (There was no way brown folks could be so organized otherwise, amirite?)
And of course, the most famous civil rights activist in US history, a man well known for his oratory skills, was widely regarded as President of the Karl Marx Fan Club.
Like I said. Cute. Like a dead kitten.
just fyi – those last quotes are from Freepers not CK.
“phylosfy”
I think I might add an L to that and make it my new interweb handle. Phylosfly.
were people always this dumb, or did the internet open up a cosmic portal to stupid?
were people always this dumb, or did the internet open up a cosmic portal to stupid?
I’ve often wondered the same thing (though often with “weird” subbed for “stupid”), and concluded that it didn’t create any new weird/stupid but allowed existing tiny droplets of it to coalesce into great raging torrents of it.
They’ve always been this dumb.
Barack Obama is nothing like Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was the great patriot and hero who single handidly destroyed the Communist bloc without firing a shot.
Barack Obama on the other hand is a silver tongued serpent who will tell the American people whatever he feels they want to hear while actually proposing the same communist agenda of Hillary Clinton and the dnc.
Unfortunately Joe McCarthy didn’t purge America of all its communist sympathizers we still have the modern democratic party and Chairman Fat Teddy “the drunk” Kennedy.
Oh. Wait, what?
Wow, Angry White Man is a fucking piece of work:
It angers him when brown people don’t act like white people. But no, not a racist. Perish the thought.
Anyone else thinking Tennessee Ernie Ford when they read this?
Barack Obama on the other hand is a silver tongued serpent
If I had a chance to vote for something as cool as that I totally would.
were people always this dumb, or did the internet open up a cosmic portal to stupid?
It opened opened the cosmic portal to the stupid and gave the stupid rapid access to gobs of information, to be used improperly.
Humboldt, that Aspen Times article is…I dunno…chilling.
It describes my father- and brother-in-law much too well.
OTOH, I fit the “profile” about 80%. And I’d happily pull the lever for Clinton if she’s the nominee. So perhaps Our Man In Aspen has his head up his ass.
I can’t keep up.
fake Gary/Kevin/Saul/shoelimpy/St James/that asshat from the last thread/Paco?
The mother of my second child called me a Silver Tongued Devil once.
I told her that all the girls say that. She was not amused.
His real name is Krauthammer? That’s hilarious!
The “Yes we can” chantings by the liberal left is nothing by copying from the Republicans
The Republicans came up with the phrase? Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers were Republicans?
From the Glenn Reynolds thread:
“Paco said,
February 16, 2008 at 0:46
As a Mexican-American I’d like to apologize for the 12-20 million illegal aliens who shouldn’t even be in this country and I’d also like to apologize for the Mexican government for refusing to stop them from coming here.”
… the ideas he is “orating” in such a fine manner are Marxist at worst and National Socialist at best…
Well, okay, then. I think one phrase is the best definition of CK’s political intelligence I’ve seen in print. Wow.
It’s so much fun watching them panic. They’re going down and they know it. Most people, if they even read the Kraut’s crap, don’t know Karl Marx from Groucho Marx.
Damn you, Name (required)!
Not to criticize Teh Sadly, but I think it is less than obvious (although on second read it gets easier) that the last two blockquotes in the post are not Krautie’s words.
Ceasar Chavez is Bob the Builder?
History was not one of my strong subjects.
found a way to sell hope. To get it, you need only give him your vote.
why can’t I have hope if I don’t vote for Obama? Will his policies only apply to people who voted for him?
Wow! So Obama’s both a communist AND a Nazi! Of course since those are both liberal beliefs, I guess it makes sense. I find it pretty funny that they keep telling us how it’s all just a bunch of empty feel good rhetoric from Obama, and then always add that Reagan was totally, totally different!
I think they’re just scared because Obama ISN’T such an obvious phony.
Panic is right. Chuckles rhetoric has become so threadbare so early, I’m wondering what wads he has left to shoot. I suppose we’ll be seeing nine months of this: “Reagan was God and Democrats are Commies and Nazis!”
Chuckles message boils down to this: “my readers are none too bright.”
“I think I might add an L to that and make it my new interweb handle. Phylosfly.”
Bad Ass !
Barack Obama on the other hand is a silver tongued serpent
If I had a chance to vote for something as cool as that I totally would.
Righteous Bubba: Yes You Can! And what’s even cooler, Obama can talk to snakes with that tongue. I heard him campaigning in St. Louis last week — “hiessth harrhh hesschisch,” he said, “hyrashisth horreschisthischhath.”
I think it would send an important signal to the non-Christian world if the United States were to elect a Parselmouth to the White House.
Parselmouth? That’s a new one to me.
Barack Obama is the Cesar Chavez of Literal Fascism
Mark my words. The Black power salute and Afros are coming back.
Or is it “Bob the Builder is the Draco Malfoy of Hegelian dialectics”? It’s all so confusing.
Parselmouth.
Yes, I speak Harry Potter. I blame the youth of America.
Mark my words. The Black power salute and Afros are coming back.
And then the Angry White Male(TM) will try to steal them.
Off Topic, Attn: Bradley Rocket, etc.:
Yes, the right wing does actually consider Marxism to be objectively worse than Nazism or fascism. I’ve seen the calculus involved triumphantly presented maybe a dozen times as an original insight. It’s along these lines: more people have died under self-avowedly Marxist regimes (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.) than under self-avowedly fascist regimes (Hitler, Mussolini, Franco).
This right-wing freak-out over Obama, in lolcat: U cannot has karzmatik leedr! Cannot has!
I’m just glad there’s no picture of Charlie on this thread.
One can only take so much.
Mark my words. The Black power salute and Afros are coming back.
Maybe even in Hillary’s next commercial.
It was the Little Engine that Could that first said, “Yes, I can! Yes I can! Yes I can!’
That was right before he said, “Heart attack! Heart attack! Ohmygodthepain! Ohmygodthepain! Left my pills at the roundhouse!” And died.
And the beauty part is that there’s no need for comparison because they’re all . . . (wait for it) . . . liberals! Ha!
…which means they are doomed to failure.
Well, who better would know?
Oh, and lest we forget..
EXTRMN8!
…the ideas he is “orating” in such a fine manner are Marxist at worst and National Socialist at best…
It’s a floor wax AND a dessert topping!!!!
What’s that I’m starting to smell?
Fear? Desperation?
It’s kinda like if you rented a house and lived there a long time and over the years had killed and buried 31 hookers in the crawlspace under the floor and then you get the letter that the owner has died and his heirs are going to sell the house….
mikey
I’m still trying to figure out why “orating” is in quotes. I mean, the previous sentence allows that Obama is a fine orator, right? I dunno, maybe it’s some sort of misguided Buttheadesque snort-n-giggle . . .
Mikey, I’m only a little worried about the precision of your analogy.
Re: the internets and teh Stoopid:
To paraphrase what someone smarter and more skilled in language than I once said, Teh Stoopid have always been with us. Even more depressing: there’s way more stupid in the world than can be accounted for by just considering Teh Stoopid, which I suppose is the reason the rest of us cut them massive quantities of slack.
More depressing yet is the mathematically sound, provable and demonstrable fact that half of all people are “below average”.
I think the internets have enabled a Stoopid Pandemic, in which members of Teh Stoopid elite, once randomly dispersed throughout the population and thus less infectious to others, have coalesced and freely swapped stoopid ideas. It’s a Columbus-brought-gonorrhea-and-the-Indians-traded-their-syphilis kind of thing.
In other words, we are doomed.
It takes a person who understands where the true greatness of America lies.
and where, pray tell, might that be? Dead and wounded soldiers, dead and wounded Iraqi civilians, tortured prisoners, Americans who are in jail without charge, and people who’ve lost their houses to subprime mortgage scammers would like to know.
takes hopes, dreams, and shoves them where the sun don’t shine.
It takes a person who understands where the true greatness of America lies.
and where, pray tell, might that be? Dead and wounded soldiers, dead and wounded Iraqi civilians, tortured prisoners, Americans who are in jail without charge, and people who’ve lost their houses to subprime mortgage scammers would like to know.
Lesley, to be fair, those really will go down in the books as great American lies.
Turns out it’s not a problem, Mortician. They ended up remodeling but they didn’t tear the whole original structure down, and hey, quicklime is cheap when you buy in bulk, so it’s all good, right?
mikey
…the ideas he is “orating” in such a fine manner are Marxist at worst and National Socialist at best…
Umm, not to pick on anyone’s ethnicity, but how can a Jew write “National Socialist at best”?
Seriously. Charles Krauthammer? Best porn name ever.*
* Note: German-speaking countries only.
If Barack Obama would spend less time talking about how we can all pull together and do something with this country and more time talking about how terrorists somewhere in the world are getting ready to make September 11th seem like a fun day at the ice cream parlor, then maybe Kraphammer would feel better.
Wow, Angry White Man is a fucking piece of work:
It’s too bad the demographic as he describes it doesn’t even exist. The putative Man in his article is a figure of such mythic proportions, even a folk song about him would be considered over the top.
I would say I am really, really sorry about Brother Malcolm but no one seems to give a shit.
Oops! Wrong thread.
Wow, Angry White Man is a fucking piece of work:
You know, I’ve had the hardest time deciding between Obama and Hillary now that Ed Anger’s not around….whoever makes ol’ Ed “pig-biting mad” is probably the one you’d want to go with…
I get this post, but comparing Obama to Reagan doesn’t exactly instill confidence in me. I was at Michelle Obama’s stump speech at OSU today and the religious undertones (you have to be brought up in a pentecostal/evangelical house to pick up the cues) disturbed me.
Yeah. Here’s what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna go ahead and operate on the assumption that all that godbothering is Obama’s own contribution to dogwhistle politics. He’s throwing the code words out there to make the christianist crossover voters feel ok about voting for him.
I’m going to assume that after he’s elected he’ll have no problem promising platitudes while working on real solutions to real problems. Hell, bush/cheney have screwed over the christianist base, why should we think for a moment that Obama can’t manage them in the same way?
mikey
Damn, this board just goes dead, don’t it? What, do you people have lives or something?
I get this post, but comparing Obama to Reagan doesn’t exactly instill confidence in me.
I think the point was actually comparing Krauthammer to Krauthammer.
Like tying a handicapped man to the bumper of one’s pickup truck and dragging him to death. Or burning down a place of worship because it is frequented by people who don’t look like you. Or beating a guy to a pulp and leaving him tied to a fence post to die. Or blowing up an abortion clinic. Or launching a pointless war that leaves countless dead and wounded, destroys a once fine military and wrecks the economy just because he wants to play War President.
And then there’s Brittney Paris Lindsay Lohan Spears Hilton…
But yeah, I find that annoying and disappointing too.
I haven’t heard anything from the German Hammer in a while. Thanks for bringing up his panic.
Jennifer, you make me laugh every time. mikey, glad you’re clear.
Teh Stoopid is pervasive and ever-present. There is no escaping Teh Stoopid, there is only defeating Teh Stoopid.
Me thinks Teh Stoopid looses the next round in embarrassing ways. Obama is now getting shat upon for his ability to speak, and his relative newcomerness.
Whereas Dubya had the newcomerness down, and speaks English as a second language, which must be why so many of Teh Stoopid luv him so.
Somehow, Arky, none of that seems like Blasphemy to me.
But then I’ve been paying penance for close to forty years.
But I’d be delighted to sit 100% security with you anytime…
mikey
Little Boots said,
February 16, 2008 at 3:54
Damn, this board just goes dead, don’t it? What, do you people have lives or something?
I just got home from work. I had to complete my annual, online Bank Secrecy Act training course, because today was the last day.
I hope that answers your question. I do not, in fact, have a life.
Wow, Thunder, your day sounds even worse than mine — and I had to sit for hours in an incoherent presentation by a Homeland Security dood whose job was to tell us how to handle an emergency — earthquake, crazed shooter, bomb scare — but whose ultimate point seemed to be “We have no fucking clue what you should do in any given situation.”
But in fairness I should add that the HS guy gave me a combination keyring-laserlight-whistle because I apparently had a right answer to a question that I no longer remember.
“But in fairness I should add that the HS guy gave me a combination keyring-laserlight-whistle because I apparently had a right answer to a question that I no longer remember.”
Do not, repeat, do not, go into that light! And careful of that whistle, too.
Smiling Mort, did he give you handouts that you can scan and post? …without getting sent to gitmo?
I once got a full page memo from my powers-that-be about how to park a car. I forwarded that to a few friends and they got a kick out of it.
UPDATE: MORE CLIPS OF OBAMA (FAKE) FAINTERS SURFACE
CLIPS FROM BARACK OBAMA RALLIES… EACH IS A WOMAN… EACH WOMAN STANDS DEAD CENTER, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE STAGE WHERE OBAMA IS STANDING AND SPEAKING… OBAMA SAYS “GIVE HER SPACE”, REFERENCES EMT, AND HANDS THE WATER BOTTLE EACH TIME!…
The Bank Secrecy Act training is quite specific about what you should do.
Here are some of my favorite examples:
Watch for customers who try to evade the requirements of the Act.
example: They ask questions.
Watch for people whose account activity changes.
example: Don’t be changing.
Question: If you note anything suspicious, what should you do?
Answer: File an SAR (suspicious activity report) with the FinCEN.
Question: Should an employee discuss an SAR filing with anyone other than the employees of the bank involved with SAR reporting?
Answer: No. It is against Federal Law to disclose any information about an SAR with anyone except law enforcement agencies or bank employees involved in SAR reporting.
Question: Can you be sued for filing an SAR?
Answer: No, under the Safe Harbor laws, no civil suits may be filed against any employee or company that files an SAR.
Question: What do the letters in the USA PATRIOT Act stand for?
Answer: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.
P.S. The examples in the from the first two questions were from my own notes. I shortered, so to speak. But not by much.
I feel safer already, Thunder. Thanks for standing on the front lines!
Thunder, any prominent wealthy republicans bank at your bank? They move money around much? Can’t be too cautious. Just sayin…
Little Boots, as I look over what I typed (and my brain is quite mushy), I did not detail the Orwellian nature of this as much as I intended to.
Of course, you have FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network), but the point about Safe Harbor and reporting any suspicious activity is this: say you don’t like some d00d. You can file a report, sic the US goverment on his @ss, and if it all turns out to be some silly bs, nothing can happen to you.
Home of the Freeeeeeeeeeee! and Land
of
the
Braves
gbear, I work for a company owned by a bank. In actual day to day würk, none of this applies to any of us at all.
Which makes wasting Friday doing the Federally mandated annual training all that much sweeter.
The USA PATRIOT Act?
Damn I’d like to smack the shit out of the clowncar full of asswipes who thought that was a good name for this sackload of feces.
Dammit. My companies will never let me in those meetings. I have a bad habit of getting “detained” at those events.
But then, quite honestly, I have nothing to lose. I already have the record. They already hate me. But the fact they haven’t been able to figure out how to take me into custody for being familiar with the actual bill of rights has caused them great gouts of constipation (Um, bad metaphor, I know). But the fact that I’m not afraid of them (tase me and live thru the experience, bro) causes them no end of consternation. And I have no problem walking that dog….
mikey
Hmm…Krauthammer is predicting an Obama win. Bit premature, no?
I have a bad habit of getting “detained” at those events.
Ha. My spousal unit and I work together and reliably sit together at these meetings, which is sometimes not such a good idea, as neither of us is very good at discouraging the other from mouthing off. Today was . . . interesting . . . as we took turns being snarky/belligerent and pinching each other in the thigh. At least we keep our colleagues entertained.
The Kamikaze Blimp.
The possibilities are mind-boggling.
Damn I’d like to smack the shit out of the clowncar full of asswipes who thought that was a good name for this sackload of feces.
Yeah, but I do sort of relish the thought of how long it took them to force a bullshit list of words to spell “patriot.” I wonder what their other attempts were — AMERICANHERO? GODBLESSUSA? PROJECTRIGHTEOUS?
Answer: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Absolutely Totally Rockin’ International Obsession with Truth.
example: Don?t be changing
to try and please me…..what?…oh, sorry. Billy Joel flashback.
Fuckit. I’m gonna smoke heavily outta my med stash and watch “Heavy Metal”.
Somehow, I think the world will be a better place for the exercise…
mikey
why should we think for a moment that Obama can’t manage them in the same way?
Spot on, Mikey. The Christianists are good only for votes, whether directed at Democrats or Republicans.
Think of it from a politician’s viewpoint (which you already have)–every item on their agenda is vastly unpopular, and inevitably provokes an enormous backlash against whoever’s promoting it. The only reasonable course of action for a politician is pander/ignore. In that order, repeated as often as necessary.
duros62 said,
February 16, 2008 at 2:30
Oh, and lest we forget..
EXTRMN8!
Awesome. If it weren’t for the Sadly, No!sians, I’d get really depressed.
Spot on, Mikey. The Christianists are good only for votes, whether directed at Democrats or Republicans
It is pandering, sure, but it doesn’t have to mean compromise – not where it matters. Think about candidates filming commercials in Spanish. They are not taking the position that Spanish should be the official language, just communicating to a voting bloc. Evangelicals speak a different language. You have to work with that.
Along the same lines as the religious talk – I hope that all of Obama’s “reaching across the aisle, bringing the country together” rhetoric is also a bunch of BS, and he’ll really play hardball with the Republicans once in office.
dAVE, I can’t know for sure, but reading things that he has written going back to 1995, I think he is genuinely progressive. I think his “unity” is about as compromising as George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism”
But I could be wrong. We always are.
They are indeed.
And … Um. Am I the only one who thinks there’s some not so subliminal messaging in the artwork? Or maybe Harris predicted the infamous wardrobe malfunction.
Whoa. Huh? Can’t keep up with you.
I’m in East Texas now, having flown to Houston from LA and then driven some 5 hours into the deep piney woods. There’s thunder and lightning going on outside. And y’all are exhuming Ronald Reagan.
Bill Clinton’s speaking in the same small town I’m in – tonight!!!
Adnan sent Britney a valentine.
AND we have a new troll named Paco! Totally kewl!
Hey, have Michelle Malkin or Debbie Schlussel written anything about the NIU killer being a muslimomexifeminfascist yet?
Nah, they’re trying to figure out how to make that Slavic name sound swarthier.
Nah, they’re trying to figure out how to make that Slavic name sound swarthier.
Yep, that dude’s a real puzzler. Superb student, and he wasn’t even “a quiet boy”.
I’ll admit, I’m intrigued by all the talk that he was “off his meds”. And the fact that he tried to join the military, but washed out.
Sucks that he went back to NIU and killed a bunch of promising young kids. Sucks that he was a decent guy – or so it seemed at one time. Sucks all around.
Mental health system in this country sucks.
Damn I’d like to smack the shit out of the clowncar full of asswipes who thought that was a good name for this sackload of feces.
Tough guy, huh?
I agree with everything but blowing up the babykilling abortion mill. You appear to think it is a bad thing to put these babykilling abortion mills out of business. You prefer dead babies to a pile of bricks. It’s clear who has the problem, you.
Sometimes people just snap. It would be nice to think there’s a pattern, but 99.999% of the people who fit the ever-evolving “profile” for this type of crime don’t go on shooting rampages. Now we have a guy who doesn’t fit the profile at all who did go on a shooting rampage. I’m sure we’re in for at least a week of Bill Frist style diagnoses from people who are dumber than Frist, along with misinformed comment about “crazy people.”
I bet that before February ends some dumbfuck will, without a trace of irony, suggest an outrageous violation of privacy rights just to make sure anyone who has ever taken medication for any sort of mental illness can’t get a gun and that same person will then call the person who suggests getting rid of all the guns un-patriotic.
Meanwhile, Bush will be stomping his feet and telling us we have to give up all of our rights* so we’ll be “safe” from “bad people.”
It’s almost funny.
*Except for No Deux. Don’t mess with 2.
Ok, I’m just going to warn everyone right now:
DO NOT CLICK ON REV SPITZ’S NAME.
Just don’t.
There, I warned you.
did the internet open up a cosmic portal to stupid
I remember the good old days when the only thing we had to worry about was breaking through the membrane separating our reality from non-Euclidean dimensions occupied by Cthulhuan horrors and soul-devouring demons. There was nothing in the small print warning about The Dimensions of Stupid.
The Spitz URL should have been warning enough.
I heard a reporter (on, I think, CNN) start a story about the shootings with a line about “the identity of the man behind the shootings,” as if it were some criminal mastermind plotting evil in a hollowed-out volcano rather than a guy personally committing senseless killings.
I know, this thread isn’t really about that, but you guys started it.
I virtually never post here even though I read S,N! all the time, and just want to thank you all for your consistent wit and insight, both in the posts and the comments. Except the trolls, who blow.
The impotent rage of this dying and dessicated beast is a sight to behold.
-GSD
I get this post, but comparing Obama to Reagan doesn’t exactly instill confidence in me. I was at Michelle Obama’s stump speech at OSU today and the religious undertones (you have to be brought up in a pentecostal/evangelical house to pick up the cues) disturbed me.
You could always vote based on the candidate’s position on issues … I heard that in some countries they do it that way …
Close those ‘abortion mills’ and Galactic Ovelord Dagon will lay waste to our entire planet! It a simple matter of survival of the species.
Why are you trying to get us all killed, Reverend?
Dagon is usurper
FEED ME
If it hadn’t been for this warning I wouldn’t have clicked. Thanks a lot pal!
hmmm…this “army of god”seems to be addicted to violence and murder.
Galatic Overlord Dagon is to be feared!!
What, you mean Krauthammer? The Right? The Army of God?
It’s important to be specific.
Or as Ford Prefect said, “Shapes! I need shapes!”
DO NOT CLICK ON REV SPITZ’S NAME.
Just don’t.
There, I warned you.
Why not? Just call me (a) curious, and (b) slow on the uptake. But I warns ya, if I don’t see an explanation soon, I’ll click, I swear it, I’ll click!
if I don’t see an explanation soon, I’ll click, I swear it, I’ll click!
URL = “armyofgod.com”. Does that not send alarm bells ring?
Actually, the point was to point out that the idea that conservatives wouldn’t care for support a “great communicator” is obviously nonsense.
You could always vote based on the candidate’s position on issues … I heard that in some countries they do it that way
Yes. In a mythical land far away where pony/unicorn hybrids frolick in peace and harmony.
Some more Obama love can be found below:
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/
You can just feel the love. With Dems like these who needs Repugs.
I like how that last “orating” was in quotes as if there was some “sexual innuendo” to be made from “orating” “words” *airquotes*
Wikipedia: Army O’ God, and the pestilential Mr. Spitz.
We’ve crossed kind of a Rubicon here, kids. After all this talk about terrorists, an actual real terrorist has finally deigned to post here. As Pogo might say, we have met the enemy …
Should blacks be repatriated to Liberia? Follow the link and take our five-minute poll.
As Pogo might say, we have met the enemy …
And he’s the exact same sort of half-brained clod we’ve been making fun of for ages.
Y’know, I pretty much can’t think of anything more boring or stoopid than a “Christian Party”.
Party on, dude…
mikey
We’ve crossed kind of a Rubicon here, kids. After all this talk about terrorists, an actual real terrorist has finally deigned to post here.
Yeah, I expect we’ll see a lot more of these folks if a Democrat wins in the fall. As the Bible says, “These things must needs be”. The Bible isn’t a very useful book.
The Bible isn’t a very useful book.
I beg to differ. It can have a salutary effect when dropped from great heights on the head of annoying christianist asswipes…
mikey
Big enough, it makes a nice doorstop.
Where did those two wack-ass preachers come from.
OUT FOUL DEMONS!!!
Thunder, I had to complete an early on-line version of that pestilential Banking Security program, back when I was the lowliest peon in a financial-services spinoff of an insurance firm. It was configured, roughly, towards “freelance” insurance agents selling policies out of their cubicles FTF, because numerically those individuals were the majority of the targeted. The whole thing was distasteful, literally — nobody likes bile across the back of the esophagus — but the real forehead-to-desktop moment for me was also strangely encouraging. One of the FAQs ran, more or less in these words: “I feel bad about the idea of ‘ratting out’ a long-term customer, someone who I’ve come to consider a friend, when I understand the special circumstances that have triggered your one-size-fits-all Alarums Buzzer and I know this guy is no more a threat to homeland security than my pet cat.”
And the government-certified response was: “Never fear — our new laws protect you against the threat of lawsuits from your possibly-terrorist former customers!”
Because, Orwellian as this response was, it was clear that the Dalek drones who wrote it had no effin CLUE how normal humans interact.
Y’know, I pretty much can’t think of anything more boring or stoopid than a “Christian Party”.
Dood, you haven’t lived till you’ve had the Jello mold…wow…the COLORS!
… did the internet open up a cosmic portal to stupid?
pedestrian wins the Shrewd Observation of the Day award.
It was the Little Engine that Could that first said, “Yes, I can! Yes I can! Yes I can!’
Nuh-uh. The Little Engine That Could said “I think I can, I think I can!” I know because I read that bedtime story to my kids about six thousand times.
And after Ronald Reagan told us “Yes, we can,” Bob the Builder said the same thing, goddamn piece of shit liberal that he is.
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Nuh-uh. The Little Engine That Could said “I think I can, I think I can!”
So that would be McCain’s slogan, then?
Please do not associate Krauhammer with me, I am entirely different and better Chuckles.