Sorry for yorking so many posts in a row, but can somebody please explain what Pastor Swank is on about here:
Jones had buddies with 2001 terrorists. This continues the awesome horrific shudder that since 2001 we now have in DC control Muslim colleagues power housing the Republic.
I’m starting to get a bit worried about him, and that’s saying a lot.
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New Republic Editor: Parents ‘Disloyal’ for Not Having Kids Listen to President Obama
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Jay Nordlinger:
… It could be that conservatives will ‘own the insult’ and use ‘teabagger’ as a badge of honor. It could become some proud conservative N-word. President Reagan said, ‘I’m a contra, too.’ Well, I’m a teabagger too — and the Anderson Cooper types can [go jump in a lake].
No doubt getting lightly mocked for storming town halls is precisely the same as perhaps the most vile epithet in the lexicon, but we’re left to wonder what that bracketed ‘go jump in a lake’ is meant to stand for, considering the context of Nordlinger announcing he’s a teabagger immediately prior. Anderson Cooper’s well-known sexual persuasion may give us a clue, a la:
– ‘Well, I’m a teabagger too — and the Anderson Cooper types can [consult me on technique].’
– ‘Well, I’m a teabagger too — and the Anderson Cooper types can [find me in the third stall from the entrance in the Lexington Passage men’s room on the lower level].’
Or perhaps the ‘lake’ reference is meant to be extended:
– ‘Well, I’m a teabagger too — and the Anderson Cooper types can [go jump in a lake or otherwise wash themselves thoroughly ‘down there’ before partaking in the pleasure of my services].’
Ultimately this is all guesswork, of course — Jay, no slouch in the build up of dramatic tension, allows us to imagine our own happy endings. He then goes on to tease us with another mystery in the very same post:
Okay, let me get a little lighter. That second word I was talking about? It is ‘yorked.’ I used ‘yorked’ on the Corner this morning, meaning ‘ralphed’ — I used ‘ralphed’ in a column a few days ago (I think).
Ahh, if only there was an easy way for Nordlinger to check if his column of a few days ago did indeed reference the term ‘ralphed’! Unfortunately, that manuscript is probably squirreled away on microfiche in some government archive by now, accessible only by faceless bureaucrats versed in the deliberately obtuse cataloging system devised by that proto-Communist Dewey.
And as if that wasn’t bad enough, imaginary PC scolds are already giving Jay a hard time for his potential future use of another euphemism for vomiting:
A reader named Ralph wrote me and said, ‘Couldn’t you come up with another word?’ This morning, several people wrote me and said, ‘What would Byron say?’ A number of readers suggested I say ‘baracked.’ But wouldn’t that be hate speech? Racist? Prosecutable?
Indubitably. But Jay soldiers on for the cause regardless:
Come and get me, copper.
Ha! The G-men’ll never take Jay alive! What are pennies made of? You dirty rat! &cetera … is it any wonder that this master of the contemporary lingo eventually cottoned on to the whole ‘teabagging’ thing? Lesson learned, libs — you don’t sneak one by Jay Nordlinger for more than a hundred or so news cycles.
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On Jews and Liberals
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John Hinderaker, Powerline:
A Van Jones Postscript
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Andy McCarthy, The Corner:
The Death of the Soviet Union Was Not the Death of Communism
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Tintin adds: This revealing photo was found recently in the S,N! archives.
Right-Wing Commentariat, The Right-Wing Media:
The Van Jones Affair
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dou•tha•na•sia (yutha-na’zha) n. The act or practice of killing brain cells through the reading of anything written by Ross Douthat. v. -nize, -nized. [Greek douthanasia, death by douchebag : douche + thanatos, death.]
Ross Douthat, apparently having been told by his editors that he couldn’t write every column about abortion, has decided to add another Catholic bogeyman to his repertoire of obsessions. Today Ross takes on euthanasia which, of course, isn’t much different in his mind from abortion except that no womb is involved.
[Y]ou don’t have to share Sarah Palin’s death panel fears to see perils lurking at the intersection of physician-assisted suicide and health care reform. … Consider the words of a prominent oncologist, bioethicist and health care wonk, critiquing assisted suicide in 1997, just before a Supreme Court ruling on the issue. “Once legalized,” this writer warned in the pages of The Atlantic, “euthanasia would become routine. Over time doctors would become comfortable giving injections to end life and Americans would become comfortable having euthanasia as an option.” From there, it would be an easy slide to euthanizing the incompetent.
Of course, it is completely understandable why Ross might have a somewhat personal concern about the fate of the incompetent. But why on earth isn’t Ross telling us who this prominent oncologist is? Does Ross have a trick up his sleeve here? You betcha.
[Those] words were actually written by Ezekiel Emanuel, a health-care advisor at the Office of Management and Budget, and the brother of Rahm Emanuel, the White House Chief of Staff.
LOL!!!!! Liberals lose! Pwned!! Because Rahm Emanuel’s brother said that, liberals aren’t allowed to take any other position on euthanasia ever but must immediately prostrate themselves before the high altar of Ross and confess that the slippery slope is real. Well, actually, there is one slippery slope that is real, and it’s the poop-smeared chute that Douthat’s column is riding down into an enormous sinkhole filled with horse shit.
Our move toward physician-assisted suicide springs from the same quest for mastery over mortality that leads us to spend nearly twice as much on health care as any other developed nation. It sounds paradoxical to link the desire for unlimited medical treatment to the desire for physician-assisted suicide. But the idea that there’s a right to the most expensive health care while you want to be alive isn’t all that different, in a sense, from the idea that there’s a right to swiftly die once life doesn’t seem worth living.
Yes, Douthat did just say that a good reason for allowing uninsured people to die from untreated medical conditions is so that other people won’t die from physician-assisted suicide. Anyone who thought that Douthat couldn’t possibly be worse than Bill Kristol may apologize profusely now.
Charles Cooper, CBS News Blogs
Van Jones Resigns As White House AdvisorVan Jones took a bullet for his boss.
After more than a…
Took a bullet, eh? We’re not fans of this new shooting-imagery fad that’s been attaching itself to the Obama administration, especially here at the breakfast table. But we have to think back to when Walter Cronkite, in his dotage not to mention his bathrobe, would wander CBS day or night being all like, “Haw haw, with Hamdan, the Supreme Court blew George W. Bush’s nuts off with a 12-gauge, then as he was curled up on the floor whining and grabbing at where his nuts used to be, they pulled a Colt 1911 and shot him right through the eye,” and remind ourselves that, eh, hm. Pass the Mueslix. Thanks.
And it’s funny about the bullet and so forth, because the last we heard of Cooper was less than a month ago, when he was a CNMNE. That’s the wavy-armed marine animal that right-wing zealots invoke whenever they sound the alarum about an individual who has impressed them unfavorably. That joke seems well on its way, but depends on what the acronym is made to stand for. Also, this column of his is pretty good.
Fine then, Cooper, let’s see some news around here, and we don’t mean maybe! We may be whistling ‘Dixie,’ but we have also been whistling bits of several Billy Squier songs including ‘The Stroke,’ and are not just whistling ‘In The Dark.’
After more than a week of withering criticism for past comments, Jones has resigned as an advisor to the White House on green jobs.
The White House announced the news in the early hours of Sunday morning. In a statement, Nancy…
Well, the right has gotten what it wanted. Now their firestorm of outrage is sure to die down, and not merely to become louder, more irrational, and less discriminating in its self-excuses. Oh wait.
ABOVE: Ken Connor (in suit)
Ken Connor, Ruhnoo Ahmurikah
Blinded By The Light of Discovery
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