the Kommisariat's Kontinuing Kronicles: more right-wingery in the USA, 2k11-12

because sometimes the tree of liberty must be watered by the blood of deltas

rip, j bateman

i don't know where to put this so i'm putting it here

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8772014

Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal?
Adams HE, Wright LW Jr, Lohr BA.
Source

Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602-3013, USA.
Abstract

The authors investigated the role of homosexual arousal in exclusively heterosexual men who admitted negative affect toward homosexual individuals. Participants consisted of a group of homophobic men (n = 35) and a group of nonhomophobic men (n = 29); they were assigned to groups on the basis of their scores on the Index of Homophobia (W. W. Hudson & W. A. Ricketts, 1980). The men were exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian videotapes, and changes in penile circumference were monitored. They also completed an Aggression Questionnaire (A. H. Buss & M. Perry, 1992). Both groups exhibited increases in penile circumference to the heterosexual and female homosexual videos. Only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. The groups did not differ in aggression. Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.

science!

i mean, i could dig up a bunch of the really gross anti-vaughan walker stuff that's out there, but that's good enough probably.

haaaaaaaaaaaaa

I want to see the Index of Homophobia

Also, some guys were really interested in getting their penile circumference measured. We're not saying, we're just saying.

rescued from the jaws of anarcho-misogyny:

http://www.youtube.com/v/EZ3B8WvVjL4&fs=1&hl=en

from the guy who brought you:

http://www.youtube.com/v/s-IwcTjAI4w&fs=1&hl=en

and

http://www.youtube.com/v/jU7fhIO7DG0&fs=1&hl=en

― ☂ (max), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 9:51 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and then this

http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/tea-party-group-offers-summer-camp/1175119

"We want to impart to our children what our nation is about, and what they may or may not be told," Lukens said.

He said he was not familiar with public school curriculum, but, "I do know they have a lot of political correctness. We are a faithful people, and when you talk about natural law, you have to talk about God. When you take that out of the discussion, you miss the whole thing."

Tampa Liberty is modeled after vacation Bible schools, which use fun, hands-on activities to deliver Christian messages.

One example at Liberty: Children will win hard, wrapped candies to use as currency for a store, symbolizing the gold standard. On the second day, the "banker" will issue paper money instead. Over time, students will realize their paper money buys less and less, while the candies retain their value.

"Some of the kids will fall for it," Lukens said. "Others kids will wise up."

Another example: Starting in an austere room where they are made to sit quietly, symbolizing Europe, the children will pass through an obstacle course to arrive at a brightly decorated party room (the New World).

Red-white-and-blue confetti will be thrown. But afterward the kids will have to clean up the confetti, learning that with freedom comes responsibility.

Still another example: Children will blow bubbles from a single container of soapy solution, and then pop each other's bubbles with squirt guns in an arrangement that mimics socialism. They are to count how many bubbles they pop. Then they will work with individual bottles of solution and pop their own bubbles.

"What they will find out is that you can do a lot more with individual freedom," Lukens said.

While the Liberty school is the first of its kind in the Tampa Bay area, Lukens said a group in Kentucky ran a similar school, and he learned from their ideas.

There is room for 40 students in the Tampa school and as of Monday, eight had signed up. The fee is $15.

pareene zing:

The children will be rewarded for disobeying rules, because camp counselors have no authority under the 10th Amendment.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/14/tea_party_summer_camp

― ☂ (max), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 9:52 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark

Still another example: Children will blow bubbles from a single container of soapy solution, and then pop each other's bubbles with squirt guns in an arrangement that mimics socialism. They are to count how many bubbles they pop. Then they will work with individual bottles of solution and pop their own bubbles.

Wtf???

heh, i couldnt figure that one out at all either

that is the perfect harmless encapsulation of "didn't really think that analogy through"

like, it would make more sense if they first dumped all of the solution into a large bucket and made kids line up for it, but you know they are just going to be passing around one small bottle of bubbles

socialism seems more like a competitive market

so, instead of relying on the fed to pop bubbles, we have to pop... our own bubbles? and that's what the bubbles represent. bubbles.

He said he was not familiar with public school curriculum, but, "I do know they have a lot of political correctness."

I am pretty sure that some people listen to stuff like this and nod fiercely, but I'm just sitting here marveling at the holes in logic you could drive a bus through.

I can't wait for us to go whole hog and disband our awful collectivist institutions like the fire dept and the military.

Starting in an austere room where they are made to sit quietly, symbolizing Europe...

Question, how does one begin to symbolize Europe? I suppose sitting quietly is a start...

i'm not sure what this "circumference mesauring device" was but there's a good chance that it

how are they going to fill a week, is my other question

everything they've listed so far could be knocked out in an afternoon

It takes a while to explain how Thomas Jefferson was a devout Xtian, iIrc.

most summer camps have a lot of filler time tbh

I suppose sitting quietly is a start...

As opposed to our great American tradition of sitting noisily

It takes a while to explain how Thomas Jefferson was a devout Xtian, iIrc.

none of the kids will pay attention to that lecture because they will be too busy eating their money

LOL, a bunch of sugar-rushed kids running around yelling, "Snocialism is evil! USA! USA! USA!"

which kid is going to be the one to figure out that they can suck on the candy, rewrap it, and trade it in for new candy

Next head of the RNC

god it's like those summer library programs where kids participate in fun storytime activities but instead of pretending to be pirates or knights or princesses or hardy boys they get to pretend to be miniature versions of their embittered parents

srsly, they have their entire adulthood for that

It's interesting how much this mindset doesn't like learning but loves teaching, usually the simplest, most rote bs possible.

I'm tired of people promoting US political viewpoints by projecting them on the founding fathers. It's 2011, those guys lived before 1800, shit changes. We've got a shitload of laws, amendments, and judicial judgments since then and we have a pretty stable landscape, so stop acting like your great idea is "more faithful to the original intentions" or some other bullshit.

It's like they're afraid to recognize that we've had decent ideas and they keep having to dig up Thomas Jefferson to put words in his mouth.

"Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter endowed with will..." - TJ, 1824

oh snap

i'm still trying to figure out the bubble popping -- maybe i guess the bubble solution stands for "capital" and popping bubbles stands for, idk, "profit"? so it's supposed to teach them how many more bubbles they can pop / profit they can earn when they all have their own bubble solution / capital? no fucking clue. jesus.

because sometimes the tree of liberty must be watered by the blood of deltas

― goole, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

<3 u sir

the bubble popping = fun

basically, they are trying to say socialism is bad because it makes you ration your fun, but they are doing so in a spectacularly stupid manner

can't believe jay batman returned and i was asleep ;_;

wait, he got sb'd? ;_; rip lolz

mod banned iirc

ah, thx -- goodnight sweet knight

wanted to respond to this from the now locked og batman thread:

http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/le_bateau_ivre/NM7Rc.png

― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, June 13, 2011 6:48 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

(Markers you magnificent bastard <3 If ever a gif was appropriate it's this one, made before this Batmeltdown on here)

― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, June 13, 2011 6:49 PM

lmao <3 awesome move & full cred 2 u now and forever for bringing that image into a jb context

Thin-skinned WND douchebag to sue Esquire, doesn't understand parody/satire law is fairly settled.

It's not the founding fathers these dudes love, it's the romantic idea of the founding fathers, which absolves them of responsibility for the present. What did the founding fathers think about the income tax, health care, abortion, oil, war in the middle east, etc? Pretty much nothing.

well hasn't that always been the thing with these dorks? strict constitutionalists that also like to bloviate about what the founders would have thought about modern developments. it's like one or the other, guys

hitchens evisceration of mamets book is pretty good but even funnier than hitch's review are the actual quotes from the book, such as

"The BP gulf oil leak . . . was bad. The leak of thousands of classified military documents by Julian Assange on WikiLeaks was good. Why?"

shockingly, wingnutdaily "op-ed" begins: "I know this sounds crazy."

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=312393

Yet, all it would take is for one state to recognize that – real or fraudulent – the document he released affirms he does not meet the requirements of a "natural born citizen." In fact, he is a walking, talking, breathing example of what a "natural born citizen" is not – complete with the dual loyalties the founders feared.

June 18, 2011

how are they going to fill a week, is my other question

everything they've listed so far could be knocked out in an afternoon

― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:47 PM (3 days ago)

lets be fair given the parenting that leads to sending your kids to something like this odds are the kids will be a little slow

If I were as prone to sloganizing as Mamet, I’d keep clear of bumper-sticker comparisons altogether.

I wonder what a smart but mislead writer like Mamet thinks about being taken down by an equally smart writer who a) can't be easily dismissed as an idiot and b) can't be dismissed a mere ideological analog? I bet a Mamet response would be predictably bellicose, but surely he'd recognize, at least privately, that he just got his ass kicked in public.

otm and the moment I finished the Hitchens review I googled around to see if Mamet had responded. Hitchens was the perfect person to get to review that book.

Mamet is crazy and will continue to be crazy.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/167205-obama-addresses-gop-leadership-conference-

i know we have a lawless warmonger in office and all but that shit is hilarious

lmao <3 awesome move & full cred 2 u now and forever for bringing that image into a jb context

― markers, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:23 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

<3 <3 <3

complete with the dual loyalties the founders feared

Know what else the founders feared? Getting sick and going to the doctor and HAVING LEECHES SUCK OUT THEIR BLOOD. Also smallpox, scurvy, and baths.

Get a life, lib dopes. There's nothing wrong with laughing at some well-written n|i|gger jokes.

Semper Fi!
BY PROUD CONSERVATIVE on 06/18/2011 at 17:56

ffs

i'm more offended by the idea that the jokes were well-written

need to work on the drawn out end credits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFymBUsoNWY

not interesting in and of itself, but evidence that the PUA-dudebro and basic 'conservative' webworlds are well connected

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/122966/

Why the hell would you link to that from a political blog and reference PUA unless you have some weird thing about women?

The right has some weird thing about women.

FYI

What the hell?? John McCain blames the illegals for the wildfires in AZ...

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/sovereign_citizen_thrown_out_of_pizza_chain_bankru.php

The case centers around Giordano's owner John Apostolou, who was forced to give up his control of the pizza chain, which he's owned since 1988, after his businesses fell into $45.5 million worth of debt. The chain has been under bankruptcy protection since February, but Apostolou only lost control after he submitted some court filings in the style of the sovereign citizen movement. One filing declared that Apostolous and his wife are "American Freemen, free inhabitants of the Illinois state, and we find it impossible to obtain State declared Legal Tender at Law." They also said they don't believe in U.S. currency or the legal system, typical beliefs of sovereign citizens, who generally consider almost all branches of the U.S. government to be illegitimate.

I LOVE THESE GUYS

when can we a pynchon book about these effing wackos

I knew their pizza was wrong somehow!

What did people pay for their pizza with? Was it some kind of barter system?

omg Girodano's!

so, reading into this a little, the pizza man, in dire straits, did some up some 'halp with taxes' searches on the internet, and ran into the sovereign dudes, and then hired one?

yeah, seems like it

iirc something similar happened to wesley snipes, though i dont think it was specifically a sovcit type

You don't need to google the truth.

LOL:

The rules set up by Mall of America officials for Sarah and Bristol Palin's book signing yesterday seemed to have been written in anticipation of an army of fans.

"'Camping out' is not allowed," the rules read. "Beginning at 5 a.m., guests will be allowed to line up."

But there was no teeming crowd of rabid Palinites at 5 a.m. And less than a half hour into the appearance of Bristol, Sarah, and Todd Palin, the crowd had dwindled to a trickle of latecomers.

did some up some 'halp with taxes' searches on the internet, and ran into the sovereign dudes, and then hired one

what did he pay with? a hog? goods and services?

Pizza.

does he trade pizzas to his customers?

sign me up for this pizza based economic model

That will be a 50-pizza registration fee, please.

do you take calzones

What are you, some kind of foreigner?

speaking of batshit summer camps:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/06/29/137478762/the-tuesday-podcast-libertarian-summer-camp

From one of the first comments:

I've considered myself a Libertarian for many years, but have to say that I found their views a bit extreme. I didn't know that there were some branches of Libertarianism that were against government regulating food or medicine safety.

iow, I've been calling myself a libertarian because it sounds nice, but I have never taken the slightest effort to discover what "libertarian" might mean.

when I was in high school, there was maybe a 15-minute window where I thought the concept of libertarianism was worth investigating; those 15 minutes ended when I realized the person I was discussing this with was a disenfranchised just-slightly-short-of-being-racist douche who considered the Civil Rights Act to be an overreach of government

I think that anyone who is an actual Libertarian has to think that! The rest are just enthralled with the romanticism of some ideas, imo

whenever i take that "political compass" test (something i've been doing for what seems like decades now), i wind up deep in left/libertarian territory, between the little "dalai lama" and "nelson mandela" dots.

Economic Left/Right: -4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.69

this inclined me, once upon a time, to think that i might actually be a libertarian. at least until i found out what actual, real-world "libertarians" were all about. now i have no home. :(

come on yall, there is such a thing as left libertarianism

these dudes are doing pretty good work on the subject

http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/

I prefer to call that anarcho-communism, myself.

xposts, maybe

Also, anyone who like Nozick is not left-wing.

*likes

notice, if you actually read the thing, that the guy isn't uncritically embracing nozick

I was an honest to god registered libertarian in 1992 because my roommate told me that libertarians were pro-marijuana legalization and I was too high to look into it any further. I was with my other roommate when he registered to vote as a member of the "People's Pot Party." We were awesome.

and i've played the atomic microscope hairsplitting game for years, i'm not interested in whether its mutualism or anarcho-communism or left libertarianism or whatever: if it gets people working together to build a free society you can call it starbucksism for all i care. xp

I was an honest to god registered libertarian in 1992 because my roommate told me that libertarians were pro-marijuana legalization and I was too high to look into it any further. I was with my other roommate when he registered to vote as a member of the "People's Pot Party." We were awesome.

― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, July 1, 2011 3:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

<3

i just like the sound of anarcho-communism

like communism but WAY MORE ANARCHY

like communism, but way more spiders

oh wait

xp Except the people now calling themselves anarchists are some pretty huge douchebags, tbh.

actually that sounds even better.

http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/la_machine_1.jpg

xp Except the people now calling themselves anarchists are some pretty huge douchebags, tbh.

OTM, and so are most of the people calling themselves "communists," which makes it real damn hard to do what a HOOS is talking abt, working together to build a free society.

main problem, tbph, is that i don't really believe in "free society." it sounds like an oxymoron to me. we sacrifice some of the freedom we might have as individuals whenever we enter social space (i.e. the presence of other human beings). and that's cool, that loss of freedom is, or at least can be, a good thing. it allows us to coexist. furthermore, to exist in social relations is to exist in a social matrix or organization, and as conflicts arise within social organizations, an implied state emerges. power exists in any social relation, and power simply will have its way. the recognition and formalization of existing power relations = the state. again, this is inevitable and should be seen as neither a good nor a bad thing.

moreover, i believe in inequity. not saying that i believe it exists (it does, of course), but that i believe in it, deeply. i take inequality to be the fundamental condition of all life. i do not oppose it or wish i could wish it away, i simply want to manage it in pursuit of what i see as the best possible outcomes.

in short, i see the essential qualities of human social organization not as extensions of philosophies, paradigms we might alter simply by changing our points of view, but as inescapable reflections of the fact that we are living organisms. the most basic truths are these: that power exist, that power will have its way, and that power is inherently inequitable. i do not oppose any of this. all sane and sensible political philosophy must accept these principles without objection and work out from there.

apologies if this has been posted:
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2011/06/america-right-huckabee-libertarian-evangelical-cruise/

lots o wtf in this, but the fact that this dipshit can manage to do this in the same interview is... something

“Back at a Republican primary debate in 2007, the candidates were asked to discuss the economy. They each praised 30 months of uninterrupted growth under George W Bush. Then came Huckabee’s turn. “I had the audacity to say that if you’re sitting in the director’s office, I guess the economy is doing swimmingly well. But if you go out there and talk to the people who drive cabs, and lift luggage, and haul these big heavy trays to the banquet halls where the nice people come and dine, they’re going to tell you the economy’s not doing real well for them. To this day I’m looked at as the guy who misspoke on the economy.”
…

“I’d repeal the 16th Amendment,” Huckabee tells me. That’s the one that created the income tax in 1913. Originally imposed only on wealthy citizens, it was the cornerstone of the effort to ensure that the US didn’t develop a European-style hereditary aristocracy. It’s a classic progressive tax: the more you earn, the more you pay. Huckabee would also eliminate the estate, gift, and capital gains tax; privatise Medicare through a voucher system.

i've never thought of Huck as particularly stupid, but i really don't know what else can you make of it

you can make of it

when I was in high school, there was maybe a 15-minute window where I thought the concept of libertarianism was worth investigating

haha, yes

for me it was when I was driving a delivery van and since I had no hope of ever receiving a decent raise (I think I made a dollar more an hour after four years) I figured the libertarians would abolish taxes and I could afford to buy a Gibson SG.

long story short my entire house is now built entirely out of Gibosn SG's

man, some of the writing on that "bleeding heart libertarians" blog is bugging the hell out of me:

So why might libertarians, and bleeding heart ones at that, argue that markets should be free of government regulations?

The short answer, which I will assert here and defend below, is that whatever the intent behind government regulation of markets, it almost always ends up working in the interest of the rich and powerful and does little to protect the interest of those with modest means and little access to power. If a commitment to social justice demands that we care first and foremost about the least well off among us, supporting government regulation may well violate that commitment.

this is unsupported, unsupportable bullshit. government regulation of markets, enterprise and trade has proved itself hugely beneficial to the poor and powerless over and over again. we can thank the action of governments for child labor laws; for the (perhaps grudging) recognition and support of labor & trade unions; for consumer & worker protection laws of various sorts; for the regulation of banks, brokerages and investment firms; for minimum wages, weekends and limited workweeks; etc.

all of these constitute "regulation" or limitation of the freedom of entities in the marketplace, and they're all good things, to the extent that they're designed well and applied thoughtfully.

it almost always ends up working in the interest of the rich and powerful and does little to protect the interest of those with modest means and little access to power

A free and unrestrained market would never do this though...

I can't answer that one for him, and I definitely won't pretend I've read, agree with, or am prepared to defend every contradictory word these dozen people have written, but these aren't are a bunch of hacks--they're intelligent guys trying to start a conversation that goes further than "you're a heartless moneybag hoarder" met with "you're a communist that wants to take my Bible." I do think it's interesting that in the long conversation sparked by the post you quoted, no one raised that particular point--they were mostly arguing from more arcane positions--but now that you've raised the point its absence does seem conspicuous. I'll raise it myself and keep track of the responses.

xp That seems to be central idiocy in the Libertarian talking points i have heard, like: oh well, Government agencies have been corrupted and bribed by big monied interests and are ineffective at protecting the rights of individuals, Might as well do away with the EPA then! rather then trying to you know fix it.

libertarians are generally good on social issues (tho many of them aren't -- viz a viz ron paul and wanting to repeal birthright citizenship, the civil rights act, etc.), which i think is usually what gets ppl into it in the first place. it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you. but believing the hardcore libertarian line on economic stuff involves buying into so many convoluted justifications for abolishing lots of things that seem self-evidently good (like giving the government the right to regulate food and medicine) that i think a lot of ppl just ignore it and stick to complaining about the government stealing their money.

it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.
it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.
it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.
it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.
it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.
it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.
it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.
it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.
it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.

i was trying to explain libertarianism to my buddy today and i wish i'd had that at my disposal

it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.

oh, it's kind of like what the Obama administration has become!

oh, it's kind of like what the Obama administration has become!

― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Saturday, July 2, 2011 1:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

without the liberal part...

would yall fucking stop

love a HOOS, but i love a gubbamint too

non-sequitor in the context of whatever discussion's going down in this thread right now (i'm not following along), but important in the context of the bigger picture of ilx right wing threads in 2011

http://imgur.com/sxWcx

. . .

http://i.imgur.com/sxWcx.gif

all those moments will be lost in time

like bamans in the rain

http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/TeaPartyFourthOfJuly.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjkUZCLvC3Q

does that guy's shirt say "yup. i'm a racist" ?

yup

The other one says "Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9/11."

I like the guy wearing a fubu shirt in the background
singin393 12 hours ago

had that same thought

they think they're so clever...

u crazy for this one marshall home:

Fringe activist Marshall Home, who has filed a series of court documents to try to take over the bankruptcy case of Chicago pizza chain Giordano’s, was put behind bars on Friday.

Home was arrested in Tucson, Ariz., in connection with court papers he filed to try to force the United States into bankruptcy—a separate case that Home used as part of a fraudulent scam to help struggling homeowners keep their properties, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. That bankruptcy case, which was thrown out of court on May 18, led authorities to charge Home with two felony counts of filing false claims in bankruptcy court.

Before the case was dismissed, Home falsely stated that he had financial claims worth more than $3 billion against the U.S., according to the criminal complaint.

keep on keepin on, marsh

this guy is a straussian, haha remember them

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/books/review/book-review-aristotles-nicomachean-ethics.html

a little difft from the shit we chew over itt but, like, every sentence is rong

is that what strauss taught? just make a bunch of unsupported and unsupportable statements?

also he manages to start this thing by not getting a joke

This one is almost unexcerptable: http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/84536

A taste:

So that brings us back to corporate jets, which are modest affairs compared to Air Force One. The last thing we want to do is tax corporate executives and make them pay more for their business comfort. If the current tax accounting rules prevent a disguised transfer of income to these executives, they should be retained. If they are too lax, they should be fixed. The object of a good set of tax rules is to get an accurate measure of income, no matter what the state of the economy.

The big mistake in this area, therefore, is to assume that further restrictions on corporate jets necessarily result in more revenue for scholarships or food programs, as the president has claimed. The calculations are parallel to those made for the president.

Take a chief executive officer who earns ten times as much as the president does per hour. What is gained by stranding him in an airport, having him wait with countless other travelers—whose time is not worth one percent of his time—to catch a plane that might not get him to his final destination?

The President of the United States is not a fucking corporate CEO, no matter how much people try to spin it that way.

wow that jaffa review is a total mess

"review"

Jeez. This prat presumes that unless corporate jets are subsidized, the CEO of Exxon or Disney will naturally be bumped out of his jet and into commercial air travel? If his time is that fraking valuable, he'll let the company pay the small amount of tax involved and save his super-expensive time. More silliness as the silly season approaches.

im actually sort of mad about the aristotle thing. there is so much to be said about aristotle... and you guys hired someone who actually wanted to write about leo effing strauss??? [said to nytbr editors]

I know, right? Apparently these companies are going to go down the tubes if their air travel prices go up.

If his time is that valuable WHY DON'T THEY GET WITH THIS CENTURY AND TELECOMMUTE

f the current tax accounting rules prevent a disguised transfer of income to these executives, they should be retained. If they are too lax, they should be fixed.

you got it, dickhole! http://www.msn101.com/content/emoticons/ThumbsUp_A1VHO4.gif

xp yeah i'm really amazed that stuff like that [review] passes for... anything.

Thomas Aquinas, writing in the 13th century, believed that in the “Ethics” Aristotle had said everything needful for happiness in this life. Thus Aquinas did not write his own book on ethics, but instead wrote a commentary on Aristotle. This tradition was extended by the greatest political philosopher of the 20th century, Leo Strauss, who wrote that all his work had no other purpose than to address “the crisis of the West.”

But what is the West? And what is its crisis? According to Strauss (and many others), the West is the civilization constituted at its core by the coming together of classical philosophy and biblical revelation. The vitality of Western civilization results from the interplay of these alternative principles, though each contains within itself what claims to be exclusive and irrefutable authority. Symbolic of this authority are Athens and Jerusalem. In “The Second World War,” Churchill remarks that everything valuable in modern life and thought is an inheritance from these ancient cities. The debunking both of Socratic skepticism (“the unexamined life is not worth living”) and of biblical faith (“Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”) has led to the crisis of the West, a chaos of moral relativism and philosophic nihilism in which every lifestyle, no matter how corrupt or degenerate, can be said to be as good as any other.

In their brilliant and highly readable “Interpretive Essay” Bartlett and Collins suggest, without positively asserting, that Aristotle offers a solution to the problem, or crisis, of human well-being. But they seem to doubt whether it can meet the challenge of the God of Abraham. But these two principles are not adversarial in all respects. Indeed, much of Strauss’s work is a radical attack — made with the greatest intellectual competence — against the latter-­day enemies of both the Bible and a Socratic Aristotle. Strauss maintained that Athens and Jerusalem, while disagreeing on the ultimate good, disagree very little, if at all, on what constitutes a morality both good in itself and the pathway to a higher good.

WHAT ON EARTH DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS

the whole line of thinking is so cult-like, "we know what we're doing, shut the fuck up". none of what jaffa writes there can reduce to anything else.

do goons know who this guy is? "the crack emcee"? he's a bay area guy i guess

anyway, he's some kind of tea partyish type dude now

http://www.themachoresponse.com/crackMC/wordpress/

both the Bible and a Socratic Aristotle

...a Socratic whosis? wtf is this supposed to mean; nothing denoted by Socratic overlaps with that which is denoted by Aristotelean. But it sounds "intelligent", if you like high-flown nonsense.

is that crack mc who did the last track on consolidated's Play More Music LP? 0_0

http://i.imgur.com/fstIJ.jpg

Reminds me of http://shakespeareassholes.wordpress.com/

I don't think that guy knows how circumcision works

gold mine

tempted to create a 'queer' username for satan (queer)

http://i.imgur.com/SMcHJ.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fp67geuhJM

I feel so bad for that poor family that woke up on their camping trip without realizing some right wing nutjob had pasted over half their Winnebago with batshit buffoonery. Oh, well. They'll catch it at the next rest stop, for sure.

There's an oddly misplaced "LOVE NOT HATE" in the middle of that guy's car. Maybe he just needs to proofread more thoroughly.

Also i hope he does realize there are three 6's on his own license plate.

(Wh)oregon plates too

so the vicious union thugs who assaulted kenneth gladney were acquitted of misdemeanor charges (some good nutty quotes here: http://stlactivisthub.blogspot.com/2011/07/reminder-of-how-tea-party-used-kenneth.html)

dana loesch, editor in chief of big journalism, p sure its a conspiracy:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--VFmymGEgTk/ThzBc1xJxzI/AAAAAAAACQ8/zIiYMqVjXGY/s1600/loeschconspiracy.png

http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/07/12/no-justice-gladney-attackers-found-not-guilty/#more-207672

comments on this are a trip

conservatives on some weird racial shit given that gladney is black and the seiu guys are white

breitbart thinks it was a hate crime

money wins cases, yo

I haven't seen dude's ER records, but I kind of doubt anyone not in the courtroom has, either. But judging from the verdict, the video, and the ridiculous commentary, I think I'm going to call this myth busted.

(soon to be on discovery channel)

What you MUST remember is that St. Louis is probably THE most pro-union city in the Midwest. There is actually a city ordinance there that you, as a householder, MUST hire a union plumber to fix a leaking faucet. You may NOT fix it yourself legally. Of course, that's ignored regularly, but the mere existence of that ordinance shows you what you're up against in St. Louie.

huh, here's a phrase i hadn't run into before:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Cold+Civil+War%22

I've been using that phrase since approximately Jan 20th, 2009.

C'mon, look at the election of 1800, this country has been constantly in a state of cold civil war with the exception of 1861-1865. It's called democratic politics.

http://www.alec.org

h/t pareene.

lol my mom's old boss (who on occasion employed a teenage gr8080) is quoted in this article:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-0714-20110714,0,7101950.column

maybe the wrong thread but w/e

goole:

http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

pretty novel idea, i must admit

instead of running everything you want through the national legislature, just run the same awful shit through the 50 states at the same time! federalism!!

“…I can’t help but be a little bit cynical here. Because we find out the president has a big birthday bash scheduled for August the 3rd, celebrities flying in from all over. And lo and behold, August 2nd is the deadline for getting something done so he can have this massive, the biggest fundraising dinner in history for a birthday celebration. […] Isn’t that amazing? The timing of this?”

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_07/gohmert_heritage_foundation_sh030941.php

That Obama-- trying to finish the debt deal just so he can have a big blowout back in Chicago...

Always disappointed that the commentators have no idea how to match the tone at Pareene's current gig, as opposed to his last two. Say what you will about Gawker or Wonkette, at least their peanut galleries have something akin to self-awareness.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/172431-republicans-approve-cut-cap-and-balance?page=1#comments

Most of these comments...Wow

this started on the NRO thread, but the o.g. article is really something

http://blogs.forbes.com/richardminiter/2011/07/18/why-the-democratic-party-is-doomed/

The Democrats are a coalition, forged in the New Deal, of diverse interests that do not get along well. Imagine the deer-hunting union member sitting down with the vegetarian college professor and the lesbian lawyer and you will begin to see the trouble party leaders have holding the horde together.

Porn Industry. Usually overlooked by analysts, this lucrative industry is a small but important source of campaign cash for Democrats. But the Internet is gutting it. XXX theatres, a fixture of the 1970s are long gone, and the DVD side of the business is dying too. As a 2009 Conde Nast Portfolio magazine article shows, YouPorn.com and other porn sites now offer hours of video content online for free, squeezing Larry Flint’s Hustler, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy and their many print rivals. The underground cultural force of these publications is shrinking with their revenues. While porn is here to stay, the Internet has empowered anyone to put up a website and collect revenue from ads or pay-per-view — underpricing the Goliaths that write campaign checks. As for Democrats, organizing tens of thousands of small-business porn stars will prove a difficult and low-margin proposition.

richard miniter would *never* overlook the porn industry

Richard Miniter sure rubs people the wrong way...

Miniter was the editorial page editor and Vice President of Opinion at The Washington Times from March[11] until October 2009.[12] Miniter filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission related to his position at the Times. According to the Washington Post,

The former editorial page editor of the Washington Times has filed a discrimination complaint against the paper, saying he was "coerced" into attending a Unification Church religious ceremony that culminated in a mass wedding conducted by the church's leader, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.... [Miniter] said in an interview that he "was made to feel there was no choice" but to attend the ceremony if he wanted to keep his job, and that executives "gave me examples of people whose careers at the Times had grown after they converted" to the Unification Church.

In September 2010, the case of Miniter v. Moon et al. and the related EEOC complaint was settled. Miniter refused to disclose the terms, but said "I am very, very happy with the equitable and just result."[13]

In 2007 Miniter and five other conservative authors sued Regnery Press and its parent company Eagle Publishing, claiming that the publisher had sold their books at a steep discount to book club subsidiaries owned by the same parent company, thus depriving the authors of royalties. According to Miniter, "The difference between 10 cents and $4.25 is pretty large when you multiply it by 20,000 to 30,000 books.... It suddenly occurred to us that Regnery is making collectively jillions of dollars off of us and paying us a pittance."[29]

An attorney representing Eagle and Regnery countered that, "No publisher in America has a more acute marketing sense or successful track record at building promotional platforms for books than Regnery Publishing. These disgruntled authors object to marketing strategies used by all major book publishers that have proved successful time and again as witnessed by dozens of Regnery bestsellers."[29]

On January 30, 2008, a federal judge granted Eagle Publishing's motion to dismiss. The written opinion granting defendant's motion stated that plaintiffs could not join a necessary party, the Regnery subsidiary, because their contracts with Regnery contained mandatory arbitration provisions.[30][31] The authors have subsequently entered into arbitration with the company.[30][32]

pretty tough being a third-stringer in that game huh

As I learnt consulting the 2009 Conde Nast Portfolio magazine article, referring only to that source to inform this article, YouPorn.com and other porn sites, just some other porn sites I guess, now offer hours of video content online for free, squeezing Larry Flint’s Hustler, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy and their many print rivals.

that miniter article is the most bizarre combination of decades-old conventional wisdom + complete disconnect from reality

On the flip side of that "democrats are too diverse" thing, I regularly like to imagine William F. Buckley Jr. interviewing Sarah Palin

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/original/richard-miniter.jpg

Thing is, I'd be down for a free-market marching towards Capitalist utopia that Conservatives yearn for. But the term 'free market' is just a political tool and the biggest abusers of corporate power seem to not want to play by the same rules as the little guy.

For example if corporations/the oligarchy didn't rely on subsidies and tax breaks and loopholes and other entitlements, I'd be 1000% more likely to believe their line about the little people not needing them either.

Free-market for the poor, socialism for the rich, sort of thing.

Corporations aren't individuals, they're hierarchies of individuals, with the ones at the bottom oftentimes being taken advantage of by those at the top. If tax breaks and incentives really worked, we'd see more sustainable, well-paying jobs at the lower levels and fewer billionaires. Since we're seeing people still underpaid and executives highly compensated, we're just subsidizing the upper echelon of wealthy people.

I have heard folks who majored in business (and dream of being "upper echelon") say those upper echelon people do specialized unique work that benefits the whole company and are deserving therefore of the larger income. I invariably ask why CEO salaries have only rocketed in the past few decades and I suggest that the company's profits and stock value do not suggest that the upper echelon are really deserving of that much more.

I agree that a good CEO is worth his weight in gold

I know that gold prices are going up

That still puts a 200 lb CEO at about $5 million a year

I'd be willing to say they could make double that and I still wouldn't complain!

what on earth does this have to do with the porn industry

It's a degenerate business and obviously has deep ties to the democrats of course

We're concerned about the salaries in that industry and how their reduced levels do not reflect that of other industries, thereby limiting their financial influence for the Dems

Still waiting for the PornAid concert...

"We Do the World"

"It's like they're afraid to recognize that we've had decent ideas and they keep having to dig up Thomas Jefferson to put words in his mouth."

If you read up on some of those crazy right wing Texas school book people are so batshit crazy they are trying to re-write history and take Thomas Jefferson out of it, as even Jefferson doesn't even fit their vision of America.

"The official story defies logic in the following sense as well," said talk show host Michael Savage, "if this lone right-winger hated Muslims, as the New York Times is reporting, then why did he slaughter his own people and not Muslims?"

kinda seems early to disdainfully question the 'official' 'story'

Michael Savage, expert on Norwegian culture and the mind of the lone terrorist

Michael Savage's new memoir, Savage, Michael

this video keeps getting flagged as "inappropriate" every time it gets upped:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwdCxV10FwQ&skipcontrinter=1

Wow. WOW. I've staunchly avoided right-wing analysis of what happened in Norway and the spin and talking points and manipulation of the facts there is STUNNING. Wow.

The right wing reaction is something along the lines of "This really is Islamofascist terrorism since the killer, though anti-Muslim, was obviously inspired by al-Queda, who, after all, invented the ideas of shooting people and setting off bombs."

Yes, it's like "this is clearly a reaction to all the anti-Islamic fear we've been stoking and proves we were right to do so, um..."

Just the way in the first sentence the anchor vaguley acknowledges this wasn't Islamic terrorism but then goes on to talk about Islamic terrorism over video of Breivek's destruction is almost artful. (I'm sure this is old news to you veterans of right wing spin but like I said, I generally avoid it and now I'm all amazed.)

joe walsh is my new hero. love it when he's on tv all brazen about the debt

http://www.suntimes.com/6720892-417/tea-party-rep.-joe-walsh-sued-for-100000-in-child-support

Freshman U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, a tax-bashing Tea Party champion who sharply lectures President Barack Obama and other Democrats on fiscal responsibility, owes more than $100,000 in child support to his ex-wife and three children, according to documents his ex-wife filed in their divorce case in December.

Walsh closed by saying, “You need to be more objective, but I love it, Chris.”

man i miss being able to have cable news on all day

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/28/hardliners-in-debt-talks-have-debt-problems-of-their-own/?iref=storysearch

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/01/284011/pam-geller-race-mixing-breivik-right/

Popular hate blogger Pam Geller has received scrutiny in recent days as the public became aware that the right-wing terrorist in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, had praised her blog and thoroughly cited her writing in his political manifesto. After a number of blogs made the connection, as well as the New York Times, the Atlantic, and other major outlets, Geller became incensed and began lashing out at her critics.
In a post defending herself yesterday, Geller — who has called Obama “President Jihad” and claimed that Arab language classes are a plot to subvert the United States — reached a new low. Geller justifies Breivik’s attack on the Norwegian Labour Party summer youth camp because she says the camp is part of an anti-Israel “indoctrination training center.” She says the victims would have grown up to become “future leaders of the party responsible for flooding Norway with Muslims who refuse to assimilate, who commit major violence against Norwegian natives including violent gang rapes, with impunity, and who live on the dole.”
To get her point across, Geller posts a picture of the youth camp children Breivik targeted. The picture was taken on the Utøya island camp about 24 hours before Breivik killed over 30 children, so it is likely Geller is mocking many of the victims. Under the picture, Geller writes: “Note the faces which are more MIddle [sic] Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian.” View a screen shot (click to enlarge) of Geller’s blog post below:

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/geller.jpg

Could Geller’s outburst of smears be a distraction against mounting evidence that she might have communicated with Breivik in the past? A post from Geller in 2007 reprints a reader-submitted letter in which an anonymous Norwegian complains of Muslim immigration and boasts that he is “stockpiling and caching weapons, ammunition and equipment.” In the comment section, Geller claims that she provided anonymity to the reader to protect him from being prosecuted. Although Geller recently deleted the ammunition line from her post, a cached version is available. As Glenn Greenwald notes, “If this were an attack by a Muslim group, and a Muslim had something like this on his/her website, the FBI and multiple other groups would be swarming.”

what a thoroughly vile person

If I heard today that she had been hit and killed by a bus, I'd think, "Boy, it sure is humid out today."

i just automatically assume that people like her had some huge trauma in their childhoods

Connasse!

yeah single-mindedness that deep usually sends up all kinds of red flags for me xp

it's iiinteresting that all the scrutiny has made her edge ever closer to excusing if not endorsing breivik...

^^this!!!

If I heard today that she had been hit and killed by a bus, I'd think, "Boy, it sure is humid out today."

t-bomb

Made that my gchat status at like 10am.

but w/'you' instead of 'she'

http://news.yahoo.com/koch-brothers-group-games-wisconsin-recalls-wrong-election-144012214.html

These guys are such kochs

jesus

impossible to read that title

Yeah, it made me chuckle. It looks like aphasia.

man it's always interesting when various strands of conservatism come together

http://jpfo.org/

ftr i don't think of ethnic pride stuff, nor gun ownership/enthusiasm, as necessarily bad or even "right wing" really.

new episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9vNsYQ5rLk&feature=channel_video_title

Israeli culture is full of guns, though, no, goole?

hm i dunno what you mean by 'israeli culture'. the state is sure armed, but i have no idea what personal gun ownership is like in israel.

anway, like i said, that kind of organization is more interesting as a niche lifestyle service thing than for any point of view. though i gather the JFPO has accused the NRA of being sellouts for not advocating the outright shutdown of the BATFE...

xp guns are very visible in israel bc the military is very visible in israel. you will often see soldiers walking down ben yehudah street wearing guns.

I thought Israel was like Switzerland in terms of gun ownership/duty

NRA of being sellouts for not advocating the outright shutdown of the BATFE

LOL, I read that as BAFTA

pretty much everyone in israel is trained to shoot a gun bc mandatory military service. i don't think it's nearly as fetishized as it is in america tho. no "gun rights" movement.

(afaik on that last comment)

i'd imagine JPFO to be generally anti-BAFTA as well

thx, mordy, i knew in the abstract that the israeli people and military are more closely venn-diagrammed than ours, but the lived experience or legal stuff, not so much.

interestingly the JPFO website touts the history of "gun control" as having racist origins, which is true enough afaik -- anti-panther type stuff.

Horsefeathers, early gun control is as much about keeping the rabble from power as anything. It's class not race (at least in semi-homogenous countries where this stuff started).

Yeah, isn't the preponderance of armories in American cities originally about stopping worker riots than anything else?

Deny access to military-grade weaponry, criminalize vagrancy, widen urban streets, etc...

No visible means of support

Disorderly conduct

Wouldn't sign loyalty oath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRPAAXVB-TQ

have you guys been paying attention to the whole foods ramadan thing?

Here’s a tip, Whole Foods: there is NOTHING “cosmopolitan” about Islam. In fact, Islam is the antonym to cosmopolitan. Retro is in. Retro back to the year 622 and the values of savages will NEVER be in.

Whole Foods . . . For the Organically Conscious Jihadist. Way more humane because, hey, “free range chickens” can run away from the IED. allahu natural fruitbar.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/40514/anti-israel-whole-foods-wishes-you-a-happy-ramadan/

has the probably unintended effect of making me think, huh, i thought whole foods were meant to be assholes

Palestinian terrorism olive oil

extra 72 virgins olive oil

Waiting to hear these people assert that the Kosher for Passover section at WholeFoods is part of a vast conspiracy.

i don't think there's any conspiracy but i will say that whole foods has noticeably far less kosher food than trader joes

Wow, a brief jaunt around Debbie Schuessel's site reveals that she is retarded. I guess that's not a surprise, but it seemed to warrant mention.

Palestinian terrorism olive oil

extra 72 virgins olive oil

― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 11:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

kudos

http://rommellaw.com/

wut

uh

http://rommellaw.com/pig.htm

"For those of you that think YHVH was incorrect in His word, perhaps further review and analysis is warranted."

those "pig facts" always annoy me

Unlike other mammals, a pig does not sweat or perspire. Perspiration is a means by which toxins are removed from the body. Since a pig does not sweat, the toxins remain within its body and in the meat.

idk if some of these guys have heard but some of the other methods of removing toxins from the body are pissing and shitting. science has yet to identify a pig that can neither piss nor shit.

http://readingeagle.com/REnetImages/2011/06/21/131159342/Article_kathryn%20lopez.jpg

more like science has yet to create a pig that doesn't piss or shit. that would be quite the solution to hog confinement runoff, right?

sweating isn't really a means to remove toxins

gbx, are you insulting my handsome homemade sauna room? I sit in it after subsisting on lemon water with honey and cayenne pepper for a few days. Let me tell you, everything coming out of you is toxic at that point.

no way, i totally wish i had a sauna instead of a stupid hot tub

dont get me wrong, stuff def comes out of you when yr sweating. that's just...not what's for.

Thing that make me IA: pseudo-science babbling about "toxins."

Oh. Wrong thread.

I enjoyed this immensely

The reasoning of the Supreme Court in 1973 in Roe v Wade relied on the philosophy of the Greek Stoics as part of the basis of its decision.

The Stoics were followers of Zeus.
That same god was called Jupiter/ Olympus by the pagan Romans.
The Hebrews & Israelites of the Bible knew it as Baal.

Which raises an interesting question: did not the Supreme Court in its Roe v Wade ruling of January 22, 1973 surreptitiously install Baal-worship as the official religion of the United States, in violation of the "establishment clause" of the First Article of our Bill Of Rights?

It seems like it could be a genuine concern of his. Which is nice.

How lolsy.

The Stoics were followers of Zeus Not particularly

The Hebrews & Israelites of the Bible knew it as Baal. What? Utter rubbish. Get one brain and one intellectual honesty.

By further extension of this kind of reasoning, giving the ruling in English, a language orginally developed to sing the praises of Woden, otherwise known as Satan, was the Court not trying to induce the unborn to listen to \m/etal?

LOOOOOOL

Which raises an interesting question

To which the answer is: No. And you are a total prat who couldn't reason his way out of a paper bag.

yeah the guy from atwater, mn with a website called the "erwin rommel school of law" doesn't have his shit together

"erwin rommel school of law"

To be fair, using the wisdom of this school in a court of law is very much like suicide.

yeah the guy from atwater, mn with a website called the "erwin rommel school of law" doesn't have his shit together

loooool

more like erwin roffle

Wasthefuchs school of law.

confidential to edward III

spengler's moving up in the world!

http://pajamasmedia.com/spengler/

congratulations to roger simon and the rest of the crew on another inspired hire

his final missive for asia times:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MH16Dj01.html

don't blame big banks or those poor hedge funds, blame the stupid greedy american public for the recession

it's Wüstenfuchs, BTW.

he's also par for the course as far as pro se "attorneys" go.

it's Wüstenfuchs, BTW.

I know. I was just making a lame pun.

The ANT
AND THE
GRASSHOPPER
This one is a little different ......
Two Different Versions
Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and
laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter,
so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:

Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all
summer long, building his house
and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC
show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with
a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is
allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah
with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green..'

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright
has the group kneel down to pray for thegrasshopper's sake.

President Obama condemns the ant
and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher
Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has
gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper,
and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act
retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and,
having nothing
left to pay his retroactive
taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow,
never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken
over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramshackle, the once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest
of the free world with it.

I've sent this to you because
I believe that you are an ant!

You may wish to pass this on to other ants, but don't bother
sending it on to any grasshopper's because they wouldn't understand it, anyway

sent to me by my uncle, in a typeface that changed size and color frequently and with no apparent parttern

prob the wrong thread but

i think that belongs in the "is america becoming a fascist state" thread

but don't bother
sending it on to any grasshopper's because they wouldn't understand it, anyway

proof lack of education causes racism

So awesome. Pretty close to a complete list of proper nouns designed to trigger a blood-pressure rise amongst the target audience.

Is Kermit a right wing boogyman now?

I personally welcome our new arachnid overlords

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident

Also Aesop and La Fontaine were Greek and French, respectively. Greece and France lol socialism!

He was probably all hopped up on grass, goole.

http://www.newcastletaichi.co.uk/carradine.jpg

i thought it was a choker thing, idk

This was a nice read, sitting on the porch of my government-granted house. I think it used to be owned by a CEO. I don't really care about looking into it though, because I am busy playing and dancing all summer long.

Actually even going back to La Fontaine, the ant is a dick. "Eh bien! Dansez maintenant" is one of the coldest fcuk yous possible.

Also, I think this may be entomologically suspect and I'm pretty sure ants are pretty close to being formical-socialists.

lol true

actually aren't ants ruled by a queen?

btw i think Kermit is just a stand-in for "Hollywood Celebrities" as well as an excuse to work in the song "It Aint Easy Being Green"

actually aren't ants ruled by a queen?

Monarcho-formical socialism

the "queen" doesnt rule anything

she just has babies

Bab-bees more like

Ants inhabit 'world without sex'

ants are amazing, there was a guy talking about them on npr the other week, apparently there are like four HUGE ant "families" in california/baja california, and you can pick up an ant from humboldt count and take it down to san diego and put it with some other ants and if its the same family the lil guy will just fall right in line and start doing her job

and if its a different family the ants will fucking murder her

also they herd katydids. herd them!! if i had a choose a #1 species most likely to take over world and enslave humans it would be ants

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LgtnwsfsFew/SWFJ_d3y2rI/AAAAAAAAAyo/0WyPvZ9tK_I/s400/antonpeony.jpg

pictured: the world

I'm constatnly at war with ants in kitchen. The black ones like grease and the red ones dig the carbs. They should start reading the nutrition nazi thread, for their own good.

btw i think Kermit is just a stand-in for "Hollywood Celebrities" as well as an excuse to work in the song "It Aint Easy Being Green"

I think it also has to do with hatred of funding for PBS trickling down to hatred of muppets and learning and children.

You mean INDOCTRINATION

The Chair of the Sumter South Carolina Tea Party posted -- and then quickly pulled -- a post on her Facebook page earlier this month that joked about throwing the Obamas out of a helicopter.

Shery Lanford Smith posted the the joke on her Facebook page on August 11th. The page is now private.

In the joke, the Obamas are on a helicopter talking about how they could make people happy if they threw money out the window. The pilot says: "I could throw both of them out of the window and make 256 million people very happy!" Smith added: "If you're one of 256 million, PASS IT ON."

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/obamajoke.jpg

I wonder which polling firm came up with that 80% pro-assassination number.

There are only 223,553,265 white people in America BTW.

spoke with a customer last week: "my computer's not working, GUESS I'LL BLAME BARACK OBAMA, HAW HAW"

my populace's not working, guess i'll blame barack obama

It's like every day, this stuff!

Assemblyman Patrick Delany cited family reasons when he unexpectedly announced his resignation last month.

But the real reason for Delany’s resignation came pouring out today, after the political website PolitickerNJ.com published a racially-charged e-mail that Delany’s wife, Jennifer, allegedly sent to state Senate candidate Carl Lewis in response to a mass e-mail from Lewis' campaign.

“Imagine, not having to pay NJ state income taxes ... It must be nice. Imagine getting a court ruling overturned so your name could get put on the ballot. Imagine having dark skin and name recognition and the nerve to think that equalled (sic) knowing something about politics. Sure, knowing someone with fat purse strings is nice, but you have no knowledge,” the website quotes Jennifer Delany writing.

In a statement issued shortly after the story appeared on the website, Delany, a Republican from Burlington County who resigned Aug. 12, acknowledged the e-mail’s authenticity and said it was the reason he resigned.

"I am deeply disappointed in my wife's decision to send that email to Mr. Lewis' campaign; it does not reflect my personal beliefs whatsoever,” he said. “In an attempt to repair the serious damage this has caused to our marriage, and to protect our kids from public humiliation, I decided to leave public life. On behalf of my family, we sincerely apologize to Mr. Lewis for any pain this caused him."

http://img2-cdn.newser.com/square-image/122267-20110630101713/john-lennon-was-a-closet-republican-assistant-fred-seaman-claims.jpeg

Imagine, not having to pay NJ state income taxes ... It must be nice. Imagine getting a court ruling overturned so your name could get put on the ballot. Imagine having dark skin and name recognition and the nerve to think that equalled (sic) knowing something about politics.

ha

guess that teabagger!

http://guessthatteapartier.com/

election law professor gets into it with a WND "fraud" "expert"

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/registering_the_poor_to_vote_is_un-american.html

http://electionlawblog.org/?p=22531

http://electionlawblog.org/?p=22569

http://www.blogger.com/profile/06681040127002240202

any floridians know any juicy stories about these folx?

http://www.jamesmadison.org/

...hmm guess not

ok more shit that probably only i care about!

hyper neo-con blogger "courtney messerschmidt" aka "great satan's girlfriend" turns out to be... four people

http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2011/09/dirty-little-secret.html
http://www.lineofdeparture.com/2011/09/08/courtneygate/

Neat bit:

http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779

...While Democrats temporized, or even dismissed the fears of the white working class as racist or nativist, Republicans went to work. To be sure, the business wing of the Republican Party consists of the most energetic outsourcers, wage cutters and hirers of sub-minimum wage immigrant labor to be found anywhere on the globe. But the faux-populist wing of the party, knowing the mental compartmentalization that occurs in most low-information voters, played on the fears of that same white working class to focus their anger on scapegoats that do no damage to corporations' bottom lines: instead of raising the minimum wage, let's build a wall on the Southern border (then hire a defense contractor to incompetently manage it). Instead of predatory bankers, it's evil Muslims. Or evil gays. Or evil abortionists.

How do they manage to do this? Because Democrats ceded the field. Above all, they do not understand language. Their initiatives are posed in impenetrable policy-speak: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The what? - can anyone even remember it? No wonder the pejorative "Obamacare" won out. Contrast that with the Republicans' Patriot Act. You're a patriot, aren't you? Does anyone at the GED level have a clue what a Stimulus Bill is supposed to be? Why didn't the White House call it the Jobs Bill and keep pounding on that theme?...

I had really been hoping - the way that the campaign had been run with all the cool logos and posters and shit - that the obama administration would have brought on some top-notch propaganda people to make sure that his messages were buffed to a shine, tilted up about 45 degrees, and sort of bubbly. like, I really thought all that would carry through.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/pbs_alters_transcript_to_hide_obama_gaffe.html

drudge linked to this joker

in essence: pbs posts obamas remarks as they were provided by the press office, probably before the speech was given. obama goes off script, mistakenly refers to lincoln as "founder of the republican party." pbs doesnt bother correcting the remarks online, because honestly, who gives a shit? as it turns out, this guy gives a shit.

(though he accuses pbs of changing the transcript after the fact -_-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EX3km583Dw

anyone know who this anchor is?

nice "democracy," No-Guns!

okay whaaaaat lady

guy's final implicitly qualified intonation of Riight- otm. ew.

The purvey of the media. Who let these people graduate high school?

This is why all the SS troops had guns, they were part of a democracy.

Aaaaaahaha omg wait wow is that real? Seems Onion-level.

Her awful smug tone and smirk when she says that make me feel violent.

she learned news anchor speak phonetically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJHTiTEhMBk

I hope someone locks all his children in dark sheds

The specific term "American exceptionalism" was first used in 1929 by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin

texans for a better america is like a poe's law stress test.

lol at "joined CBS" while there's 2 clips in a row with an ABC logo

http://espn.go.com/blog/afcwest/post?id=32263

dunno if this belongs here in any specific way but for those out of the know Tim Tebow is evangelical who has said very loudly that football is a way for him to spread God's word. He is also not an NFL-caliber quarterback. I like to imagine the people who would spend money on billboards demanding he play are the same people applauding death row statistics. It's a little tin-foil hatty of me but bear with.

weren't they going to try him as a runningback/wildcat?

I had seen TE/FB but he protested saying something to the effect that, 'i have the best chance to save people as a QB in the NFL'

fair point, if you think abt it

tebow the choir boy and orton the party animal would make a great sitcom

two athletes with two different lifestyles: they share a locker room, an apartment, and they're competing for the same job!!

gr80.... I think you're on to something here.

tebow volunteered to host his bible study group... the same nite orton planned a kegger!!!

lol

http://usbacklash.org/

this blog is unremarkable except as an example of something i see a lot... absurd number of tags!!! what is with the crazy amount of category tagging.

dozens of tags and no comments.... who pays these people?

POLULAR PAGES
Casey Anthony Party Pictures
Democrat Videos
Political Cartoons
Racist Rep Sheila Jackson Lee
The REAL Democrat Party
United States Constitution
USBACKLASH RSS Feed
Weinergate – Typical Democrat Deception

right-wing lip readers convinced Michelle Obama denigrated the flag and firemen at 9/11 event

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109140022

First Ms. Thang

this is just bizarre... that doesn't look like what she's saying AT ALL. like where the hell do they think she says "all?"

all this for hydrangeas?

she's actually saying "we should give them all HPV vaccinations"

hahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHslkhZWzUQ

breitbart raving about how "major-named people in the military" tell him that theyve "got his back"

i mean at this point the vague wish for a military coup is kinda standard among these guys, but it still shocks me how divorced from reality the guy is

the breitbart putsch

LOL hah wtf is he even talking about? He's going to shoot Janeane Garofalo? Threaten somebody's teenage kids?

I must have forgotten about that part of the Constitution calling for military rule when people say things you disagree with. He also conveniently ignores anti-abortion protesters showing up at schools and homes as he complains about those mean unions allegedly protesting outside the homes of CEOs.

I must have forgotten about that part of the Constitution calling for military rule when people say things you disagree with. He also conveniently ignores anti-abortion protesters showing up at schools and homes as he complains about those mean unions allegedly protesting outside the homes of CEOs.

As a general rule, if someone talks about standing up for corporate CEO's, it's the equivalent of them telling me they hate the Ramones.

http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2011/9/18/17/enhanced-buzz-2250-1316381475-1.jpg

i have a friend who goes around Facebook arguing with Tea Partiers and calling himself "Bachmann DaClown", "Cantor DaClown", "Zombified Reagan", etc.

Right now I believe he is "Hellmaster Palin".

omg HOOS

sayin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umTITWQuXwY

Terrorists would be a lot easier to spot if they all wore duct tape over their mouths.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/green_twilight.html

The goal is not to save resources or to conserve the environment. It is to restore human beings to a point where they are simply another part of the ecology. It will not be purely Neolithic -- however close they may be to Mother Gaia, greens have no desire to spend their nights in caves. Agriculture will be necessary to raise ethanol crops (not to mention arugula) for the green aristocracy. It will be a village culture, poor, primitive, and ignorant of anything other than the fact that humanity has sinned against Gaia and must make amends. Only the green elite will be allowed power, travel, and information.

i only know about this because a printout of it was lying around in the bathroom stall at work >:|

(not to mention arugula)

had i not put a link to these guys yet?

http://www.thenationalpolicyinstitute.org/

i'm pretty sure this quote is on ilx somewhere. i had completely forgotten the holocaust museum shooting, good god

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31271698/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/gunman-may-reflect-growing-racial-turmoil/

Louis R. Andrews, chairman of a white advocacy group called the National Policy Institute, said he does not support violence, but he expects to see increased racial animosity that will eventually manifest itself in more physical attacks.

"There's no such thing as post-racial," Andrews said, when asked about the claim that Obama's election moved American race relations to a different place. "There's conflict, conflict and continued conflict."

Andrews said he voted for Obama because "I want to see the Republican Party destroyed, so it can be reborn as a party representing the interests of white people, and not entrenched corporate elites."

http://www.thenationalpolicyinstitute.org/wp-content/themes/npi/img/hilton.jpg

Andrews said he voted for Obama because "I want to see the Republican Party destroyed

That's some kind of swell strategic voting there, fella.

He just wants a national working man's party

no need babysitting the desires of racists, he wants a white person's party, like he said

never heard of this organization before

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Fund

wowzer

Wow, Mad Men just took an unexpected turn

Slashdot has an article about the Wall Street protesters. Typically, the comments have more than enough people knocking them (for having iphones, for not being organized around a leader, etc).

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1836203/Conflict-Between-Occupy-Wall-Street-Protestors-and-NYPD-Escalating?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

need to have this on here -- an ilx politics classic

detective uncle shaved longcock

http://shavedlongcock.blogspot.com

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zO73-05ocO8/Tlx6T_eqrVI/AAAAAAAAepY/4huFfCxMowk/s350/MONose.jpg

sound advice

man slashdot still exists? is it filled with libertarians

Hah. Well, the articles posted seem to sometime lean that way but the balance in the comments is really pretty close. In fact the more political articles tend to draw plenty of conservative arguments. I think some of that has to do w posters wanting to seem smart, outsmarting their peers by taking the reactionary side.

http://twitter.com/#!/ChristineOD/status/119830522154328064

witchy

a spell, i presume

xp lol

no matter how deeply the forces of animalism and resentment can damage pluralism, free inquiry and common values, we will always have christine o'donnell to laugh at

twitter post is gone. what was it?

http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tweet-christine-odonnell-gibberish.jpg

http://www.city-journal.org/2011/eon1004gs.html

Guy Sorman
Greek Mythology
European governments must learn to treat Greece like any other nation.
4 October 2011

The modern Greek state is an invention of European powers. The effort began with the Romantics, when Chateaubriand, a great writer but also a wonderful fibber, and then Lord Byron, believed that they could retrieve the sources of Western civilization in Greece—a misunderstanding for which we’re continuing to pay the price. True, today’s Greeks live on the same land as Aristotle and Pericles; but otherwise no great continuation links Hellenic civilization with modern Greece.

what is with the 300 boner these guys have

they love fantasizing about being noble and heroic strongmen fighting off the brown hordes afaict

HEY MAX

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Sovereign-Washington-group-draws-federal-2230474.php#photo-1689014

via tpm of course

lol joe already sent me that

http://www.seattlepi.com/mediaManager/?controllerName=image&action=get&id=1689038&width=628&height=471

http://www.seattlepi.com/mediaManager/?controllerName=image&action=get&id=1689034&width=628&height=471

wd be really interested to compare the language in these bizarre legal filings to the asyntactical language of schizophrenics

cf jared lee loughner

oh these guys :)

i want to send a bunch of clippings to thomas pynchon and make him write them into his next book

Yeah, her grammar is poor.

i see i have already said that on this thread

re: pynchon, i mean

so wonderfully american!

while we're here, what is the relationship between 'game' and facism? well...

http://heartiste.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/comment-of-the-week-the-natural-state-of-woman-is-submission/

holy shit

also lol at "facism" in this context

haha i've just committed my favorite ever internet typo

"when her womb is exposed to the threat of beta sperm"

Vive la différence, you tinkering, vivisecting, social engineers! You life’s losers, you resenters, you poisoners of the punch bowl! You philosophesses with weak-chinned daddies!

Come on, you resenters, you poisoners of the punch bowl and SHIIIIIIIIIIINE!

So, I'm a denatured woman now? When did they add the wood alcohol to me, and why wasn't I told about it?

Tbf, one often doesn't remember when they add the alcohol to you, Christine.

Michele Bachmann is the last (small) chance for a female American president.

Apparently even Haley Barbour can't get behind the Personhood Amendment.

Eh most of that Heartiste link is pretty par for the course, dressed up men's rights BS but with fewer misspellings and more turn-of-the-last-century high-minded "adoration". Reminds me what that Atlantic article said about cultures with greater male populations than female: that the culture tends to revere women and women's roles, but men use their voting numbers to keep women home and uneducated. Yay!

But somehow when I got to "the vessels of our immortality" I felt really sickened, more than by the rest.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/02/justice/georgia-militia-arrests/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Ricin!

Huh...I wonder if I'm related to Samuel Crµmp.

Friendswood Rep. Taylor apologizes for Jewish slur

The chairman of the House Republican Caucus casually used an ethnic slur earlier today while expressing frustration over the cumbersome payment process of wind insurance claims.

“Your job is to pay claims. Don’t nitpick. Don’t try to Jew ‘em down. That’s probably a bad term,” Rep. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood said.

Several hours later, Taylor, who is running for the Texas Senate, released this statement:

“At a legislative oversight committee hearing today, I inadvertently used a phrase that many people find offensive.

“I corrected myself immediately when I realized what I had said.

“I regret my poor choice of words and sincerely apologize for any harm they may have caused.”

House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, the first Jewish speaker elected to lead the 150-member body, declined to comment about the slur, according to his spokeswoman, Tracy Young.

Taylor, who owns an insurance agency, is co-chairman of the state’s Joint Legislative Committee on Wind Insurance.

Moments before Taylor’s verbal lapse, Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman told the committee: “There’s a tremendous fear going to trial on these cases. That drives a lot of decisions that are being made.”

Taylor said it shouldn’t be so complicated because it’s simply a matter of determining the cost of putting up a new roof or repairing a house.

“We’re not calculating pain and suffering. How much does it cost to put that wall up? We need to get back to what does it cost to put the house back up, to put a new roof on?”
He expressed “frustration” and wants a new TWIA.

Immediately after conceding his use of “a bad term,” Taylor continued his thought: “If the claim is $12,000, pay the $12,000 and get on down the road.”

TWIA officials told the committee that rates need to go up 22 percent for homeowners and 29 percent for business property to keep the state windstorm insurance financially sound.

They also told lawmakers that TWIA has paid out 97 percent of the Hurricane Ike claims, which will end up costing about $2.3 billion.

unbelievable

yeah, that is.

oh wait, what thread is this?

very believable

texas!

this is an older bit from the beginning of last year, but I thought it fun. It's done by young rightwing schmuck Ben Shapiro, and is pretty much a list just plopped here in this thread for y'all to point and laugh at:

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2010/01/17/top-10-most-overrated-directors-of-all-time/

Top 10 Most Overrated Directors of All Time
by Ben Shapiro

Enjoy. Or not.

His top choice is...rather odd & unexpected, I must say.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n21/pankaj-mishra/watch-this-man

pankaj mishra (not familiar with him) reviews newest niall ferguson tome very badly, ferguson comments angrily.

niall ferguson is such a cumstain

Top 10 Most Overrated Directors of All Time
by Ben Shapiro

could poll that. agree with Lean. rest is some interesting trolling. (well especially top 5)

pankaj mishra (not familiar with him) reviews newest niall ferguson tome very badly, ferguson comments angr

Why 'very badly'? What's wrong with the review?

"vary badly" as in "he panned it harshly", not as in "it's poorly written"

also with "very" spelled correctly

It's not fabulously written either.

yeah the review is a little axe-grindy even if i agree with its assessment of ferguson

Buried in a Grand Rapids Press story about Cornerstone Schools co-founder and Republican Senate candidate Clark Durant's Thursday meeting with a group of college students is a nugget about the nation's wealth gap. In the swing state of Michigan, hit hard by the country's economic woes, this quote is going to raise some eyebrows:

In regards to the Occupy Wall Street movement, Durant said the protesters should "go find a job." In regards to the wealth gap the movement decries, Durant said, "I think it should be wider."

Of course they think it should be wider, they want people to be desperate enough to be happy to be their maids and butlers. Just like in the 1890s. They just want good help!

Looooool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNPXdXbT6Ds

James O'Keefe has been lurking in journalism school hallways across the country in pursuit of his latest bombshell series "To Catch a Journalist." So far, he's blown the lid off the story that some college professors like Barack Obama and that sometimes journalists drink alcohol and use bad words. When O'Keefe attempted to confront Columbia University j-school's dean of students Sree Sreenivasan with these shocking revelations in a pantomime of Mike Wallace, Sreenivasan just laughed at the poor guy.

The ostensible reason for O'Keefe's visit was to get Sreenivasan's response to O'Keefe having "caught" Columbia University professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Dale Maharidge using bad words in an email. (Those bad words? "Hey shitheads, Check out my comments about you: [Facebook link] Fuck you, man. Bring it on. Dale Maharidge.")

Instead of a comment, O'Keefe got some sniggering questions, like, "Why didn't you dress like you were in some of your other videos?"

"So you stand behind profanity-laced emails?" O'Keefe asked, stupidly. When he left, according to Sreenivasan's Twitter feed, he ran into some trouble with the door.

After he was done with me, I should have kept rolling, because they get to the exit and find they can't open it. He says, "Have they locked us in?" Turns out they were pulling the door instead of pushing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNPXdXbT6Ds

o'keefe really strongly reminds me of dennis reynolds

james o'keefe is the most hilarious person

he's such a geek, i had just assumed he was another breitbartian macho blowhard

... did you not see the ACORN footage

no! lol

ha okay

he was dressed like this in it:

http://2.images.theweek.com/img/dir_0057/28987_article_main/james-okeefe-dressed-as-a-pimp-when-he-appeared-on-fox-in-2009-after-his-acorn-prank-the-hoaxster.jpg

isn't that the blind kid who sings the national anthem before Eagles games?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3600/3367169204_455febd7d5.jpg

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-it-comes-to-e-mailed-political-rumors-conservatives-beat-liberals/2011/11/17/gIQAyycZWN_story_1.html

Snopes turned up 46 viral e-mails regarding Bush during his eight years in office. By contrast, in just four years as a candidate and as president, Obama has been the subject of 100 such chain e-mails. The difference is not just in number but in kind: Twenty of the 46 Bush e-mails checked by Snopes turned out to be true, and many of these flattered or praised him. Only 10 e-mails about Obama have been true, and almost every one of them has been negative.

Emery estimates that more than 80 percent of the political e-mails that he’s vetted over the past 10 years were written from a conservative or extremely conservative point of view. “The use of forwarded e-mail to spread [false information] around is overwhelmingly a right-wing phenomenon,” he said.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was a frequent target of chain e-mailers when she was speaker of the House, recalls Snopes founder David Mikkelson. But he can’t recall a single urban myth about her successor, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio). Even former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who inspires apoplexy among liberals, hasn’t rated much on the e-mail circuit since her stint as Sen. John McCain’s running mate in 2008.

So are conservatives just more careless and irresponsible in their accusations, or more ruthless about spreading them, than liberals? Do conservative haters just like e-mail more than their liberal counterparts? Is this part of what liberals deride as the “right-wing noise machine”?

“The Internet is a megaphone that spreads conspiracies quickly before there’s anyone to correct the facts,” he says. “There’s no one between your crazy uncle and his address book.”

loooool i just sent that link to my crazy uncle and used that^ as the subject line

But he can’t recall a single urban myth about her successor, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio).

I heard Boehner once had to have his stomach pumped, and it was a gallon of semen that came out.

we should start a "Sarah Palin inspires apoplexy among liberals" chain e-mail.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/police-man-ripped-up-walker-recall-petition-and-drove-off/article_d7244b3e-1168-11e1-81a9-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1e5AeN5Wf

A man who stopped his pickup truck at a site where signatures were being collected Thursday for the recall of Gov. Scott Walker ripped up one of the petitions instead of signing it, Madison police said.

The incident happened at about 10 a.m. in the 800 block of South Midvale Boulevard, said police spokesman Joel DeSpain.

The signature gatherers were holding signs and having vehicles pull into a parking lane when a driver in a red pickup stopped. When given a petition to sign, he ripped it up and drove away, DeSpain said.

The destroyed petition had three signatures on it, he said.

Signature takers were able to get the license plate number, but police had not located the man as of Thursday afternoon, DeSpain said.

Falsifying, defacing or destroying a recall petition is a felony punishable by up to three years and six months in prison and a $10,000 fine.

hope this d00d goes to prison, yes

No one goes to prison for that kinda stuff though.

Just getting arrested, booked and fingerprinted would be an unpleasant experience. Also, when a crime is elevated to a felony, it's for a reason. If the petitioners really publicize this, including the license plate number, the chances are damned good the police will have to pick him up.

man that story would work better if it wasn't about something with THREE signitures on it. Shit I could get three signitures for a petition right now, and I'm in an empty house.

and now i have the feeling i should have used an 'a' in that word instead of an 'i'.

thanks to ann althouse, i have now been exposed to a truly novel conspiracy theory linking george lucas to obama.

in 2009 when one of the air force one planes was lying low near the statue of liberty (remember that?) they were accompanied by red tails fighter planes from the alabama air national guard.

lucas' girlfriend is a wall streeter type and knows some of obama's inner circle

so the air force one flyby was, after all, some kind of favor to george lucas for his movie, or because he gave money to obama, or just more pro-black propaganda for its own sake, or something

apparently the ur-text for this whole deal is this blog comment:

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/04/this-wouldnt-be-happening-if-hillary-were-in-charge.html?cid=6a00d83451b2aa69e201156f632d29970c#comment-6a00d83451b2aa69e201156f632d29970c

searching "red tails" and "air force one" brings up all kinds of shit, but fair warning a lot of is from some seriously ugly zones.

uh actually it's not even clear the accompanying plane was a "red tail," the whole thing is pure sketch

god what has my life become

great post.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/rand-paul-detained-tsa-nashville-airport/47721/

Always one to detest the TSA's intrusion on people's privacy, Sen. Rand Paul has been detained himself by officials with the agency at Nashville's airport this morning, according to Paul spokesperson Moira Bagley. As CNN and Politico report, Paul, ever the libertarian, refused to be patted down when asked by airport officials in Nashville. "Paul went through a scanner at the airport and set off an alarm, Bagley said. He wanted to go through the body scan again instead of getting a pat-down, but officers of the Transportation Security Administration refused," says CNN. This isn't the first time Paul's been irked by the TSA's pat-down procedures. The Daily Caller reported in June how Paul criticized TSA head John Pistole for the pat-down of a 6-year-old Kentucky girl, chosen at random per TSA policy. "It makes me think you’re clueless, if you think she’s going to attack our country and you’re not doing your research on the people who want to attack our country," he said in Congress at the time. So presumably, Paul believed he (white, male, U.S. senator) wasn't enough of a threat to be patted down either.

Good ol' Max:

http://gawker.com/5878427/rand-paul-is-so-full-of-shit-about-being-detained-by-the-tsa

...That sound you just heard was my eyes rolling so far back in my head that they fell out. We don't love the TSA security procedures, but if let's please not embarrass ourselves by pretending that Paul did something brave or noble here, or that the TSA reacted in an unexpected or particularly troubling way. Rand Paul wasn't "detained"; the TSA is not Agent Smith; you are not Neo; and if the worst way your civil rights have ever been violated is by having your body touched by a government employee while you wait to board a plane, you are pretty lucky.

Libertarians are a people constantly in search of issues to be self-righteous about. This is the problem of a political movement about "freedom" peopled largely by white men with college degrees and above-average incomes: there's not a lot of freedom they don't already have, and not a lot of situations where their civil rights are being potentially trampled. The TSA is a wonderful thing for contemporary American libertarianism; it's one of not many places where a upper middle class Linux engineer can actually stand off against an invasive government...

haha OTM

now he's claiming the machines might be rigged

or he really wants to investigate to see if it's possible that TSA agents can pull a funny one

"I think was mine probably random, I doubt I was picked on," he said. "But I would like to know: does the screener have the ability to push the button and randomly get someone to set off a screener?"

bonus accurate and then inaccurate use of "random", very 21st century

youre kidding

its kind of odd to me that there isnt a congressional exemption from tsa screenings

tbf rand paul fits the demographic of domestic terrorist pretty well

"But I would like to know: does the screener have the ability to push the button and randomly get someone to set off a screener?"

Definitely speculate to the press about a completely manufactured concern that no one has ever voiced, in order to deflect derisive laughter from/ validate your hysteria about being held equal with other people and subject to the same inconveniences as us norms.

Srsly I don't know how Rand got elected he has no charm or charisma and is kinda thick.

Don't see why bitching about TSA is necessarily right-wingery.

Charles Murray endorses paternalism (lol no really) and... new urbanism?

The [solution] that I have in mind has to be defined in terms of individual American families acting in their own interests and the interests of their children. Doing that in Fishtown requires support from outside. There remains a core of civic virtue and involvement in working-class America that could make headway against its problems if the people who are trying to do the right things get the reinforcement they need—not in the form of government assistance, but in validation of the values and standards they continue to uphold. The best thing that the new upper class can do to provide that reinforcement is to drop its condescending "nonjudgmentalism." Married, educated people who work hard and conscientiously raise their kids shouldn't hesitate to voice their disapproval of those who defy these norms. When it comes to marriage and the work ethic, the new upper class must start preaching what it practices.

Changing life in the SuperZIPs [elite neighborhoods] requires that members of the new upper class rethink their priorities. Here are some propositions that might guide them: Life sequestered from anybody not like yourself tends to be self-limiting. Places to live in which the people around you have no problems that need cooperative solutions tend to be sterile. America outside the enclaves of the new upper class is still a wonderful place, filled with smart, interesting, entertaining people. If you're not part of that America, you've stripped yourself of much of what makes being American special.

am i nuts or is this a kind of "general petraeus" version of conservative culture war? the language feels very much like COIN, "the surge," etc

link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577170733817181646.html?fb_ref=wsj_share_FB&fb_source=profile_multiline

pro-choice rally punchline in max's piece is awesome. also quoted at length in the guardian.

the new upper class must start preaching what it practices

iirc, divorce is just as prevelant among the upper class as anywhere else. And trial marriages or living together before marriage is practised pretty damn widely these days, too. As it was in most centuries you might care to name.

So, which "norms" is this jerk-off talking about anyway? Does he really think that no one is vocally disapproving spousal abuse, child neglect, or any other real problems of that nature? I hate this kind of hand-waving holier-than-thou crap. It is brainless.

I think he's talking about the modern-day equivalent of holding temperance parades through slums.

Aaaaand a response to me posting that bit on FB, from the same chick who's replied to me laughing at Ron Paul before, poste here for your amusement:

Well, I for one am glad that he did what he did. More people should take "a stand"- however the "language" is interpreted. I for one am sick and tired of the government getting crazier and more invasive. Every time we give them an inch they take a mile. This isn't America anymore! The only solution is to get the government out of the airport security entirely and put it in the hands of private airlines. If you want the "pat down/sexual harassment/cancer radiation/takes 5 extra years to board the damn plane/can't even bring your bottle of effing Fiji water with you" airline then fly on that shitty one. The whiny, worried little babies will be "safe" there. If you're not spooked/BRAINWASHED by any of the BS rhetoric then fly the one that doesn't require such stupid measures. Then everyone gets what they want. Libertarianism isn't such an awful thing. It's about choices. Choices are what made America a great nation. People better WAKE UP because our country is turning to absolute shit!

...cancer radiation?

Pretty sure they are doing their own medical safety testing on those machines.

Her grievances are plain enough, but the rest is just parroting empty slogans.

According to e-mail exchanges between T.S.A. employee representatives and Department of Homeland Security officials, airport screeners in Boston and Atlanta were concerned about growing numbers of co-workers “falling victim to various forms of cancer,” which they suspected might be caused by radiation exposure from the machines. The e-mails and other documents were obtained by the privacy center under the Freedom of Information Act as part of its own lawsuit against use of the scanners.

Ginger McCall, the center’s open government counsel, said the documents also showed that the T.S.A. had denied employees’ requests for dosimeters, safety devices that measure radiation exposure. “There is still a need for independent safety testing of these devices and for greater transparency on the part of T.S.A.,” she added.

http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/airport-body-scanners-and-health/

Yeah, that's a dosage thing, like with cops getting nut cancer from radar guns. Walking thru a checkpoint won't damage really damage you, presumably, sitting next to it for 40 hours a week has a far better chance of it.

Then again, I don't really know what I'm talking about.

And there's a followup:

With the way the country is going down the toilet abortion is about last on the list of my concerns, Jeremy. The federal government now has the right to detain citizens without a trial and lock them in secret prisons. Every single day read about a new threat to my BASIC rights. WTF, do you really think I care about abortion? It's one of those issues no one will ever agree on. Some people feel it's an act of violence on another human being. Some people feel it's a freedom. The only fair thing to do here is make it a state's decision. Pretty much ALL decisions should be state's decisions: drugs, prostitution, murder, pornography, violence, seat belts- anything. The minute the big federal bureaucracy steps in everything just gets convoluted and 100x's more expensive. The only thing that the federal government should deal with is protecting our LIBERTY and the right for states to make their own decisions on hot topic x, y or z. This is the only way everyone will be happy. That way if you want abortion so bad you can be a Californian. If you don't, move to Texas- everyone wins. For me abortion is a "freedom" that I would never require (only in a case where I might die if I didn't have one and even then I would do everything I could to avoid it) because I take responsibility for my actions. Now, I would like the freedom to bring my goddamned FIJI water with me on the fucking airplane and not be felt up when I'm doing it!

She wants to be oppressed by her state government, bcz the feds make such a cock up of it? Except, imagine if every state had different airport security regulations. Total chaos.

The only thing that the federal government should deal with is protecting our LIBERTY and the right for states to make their own decisions on hot topic x, y or z

Like slavery. And sodomy. And interracial marriage. And so forth.

Federalism is dead, and good fucking riddance, I say.

Legalize it.

is there anywhere where we're just cyclically pasting & repasting parts of the guy's 'i may eat tacos' speech?

http://www.courant.com/community/east-haven/hc-east-haven-mayor-tacos-0125-20120124,0,5054089.story

Floating around on facebook now, and shared by people I know and me with equal parts irony & enthusiasm.

http://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/379429_509794751411_134000111_30118414_364352984_n.jpg

laudable goals listed as tho all are scaremongering

Lol!!! Satanic cookie!

http://gawker.com/5879254/which-companies-are-using-aborted-human-fetuses-in-their-food

Last week, Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey introduced a bill that would ban "the manufacture or sale of food or products which use aborted human fetuses." But which foods or products use aborted human fetuses? Let's investigate.

NPR speculates that Shortey's bill has to do with a recent boycott aimed at PepsiCo for working with a company called Senomyx that "has been accused of using proteins derived from human embryonic kidney cells in its research....

girl scouts sound AWESOME

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/thou-shalt-not-write-bad-things-about-obama_618603.html

Two Republican govs say Obama was mean to them in person (for things they wrote about him)

If only he'd be so assertive with America's enemies. But then again, I suppose, an "enemy" is really in the eye of the beholder.

uuuuuuuuuggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

yes, if there's one thing Obama has been super lax on, it's enemies of America

Number of Osama Bin Ladins killed by Republicans: 0
Number of Osama Bin Ladins killed by Obama: 1

ha that makes it sound like Obama led the charge into the house

i want to make a bar graph of that superimposed over a photo of bin ladin and post it on fb

yes, if there's one thing Obama has been super lax on, it's enemies of America

Yes, he's been too soft on himself for a start

Girl scouts getting some money from me thanks to that graphic.

http://www.theroot.com/buzz/republican-releases-slave-ship-ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBC4-IMbsBM

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http://www.examiner.com/democrat-in-national/kansas-speaker-o-neal-asks-house-gop-to-pray-for-obama-s-death

Mark Oxner ad reminds me of the Subgenius MTV promo

http://exiledonline.com/more-great-moments-in-libertarian-history-ancient-sumerian-word-for-libertarian-was-deadbeat-freeloader/

libertarians go wild for sumerian phrase they think means 'liberty' (^^tattoo gallery inside!!)

it means "debt forgivness"

oh no way

hahahahahaha

that's great

Hahahah oh shit I first remember seeing that online like 10 years ago.

Jan Brewer continues to beg for revenue from staged angry photo-op:

http://m.wonkette.com/55631/show/e85fe5a839d83c5d0a6465b8fbc37c50&t=8067b5a5bbb04e67e3bf40cea5f6698d

Friends,

I need your help!

When I met President Obama this week, I really wasn’t pointing at him. I was telling him, “You have ONE more year!” The President needs to be reminded that he is the President of the FEDERAL REPUBLIC and not a KING lording over state governors.

While I wanted to talk to him about jobs, our economy and visiting our border, President Obama criticized my book, Scorpions for Breakfast, and then walked away from me.
We deserve results over rhetoric, but this is a President who had the audacity to sue me and Arizona in my efforts to protect our country from illegal immigration!

Mitt Romney will beat Barack Obama because a majority of the country already knows that the president is an epic failure at his job, and a thin-skinned, self-absorbed ideologue to boot.

All the noise about Romney's wealth and the nonsense about his "effective tax rate" won't make a lick of difference to a voter afraid of losing his or her job or fearing for their children's future.

All the left's harrumphing about Bain just isn't going matter to a country desperate for competence and character, discipline and the values of hard work, thrift and sacrifice.

Examiner Columnist Hugh Hewitt is a law professor at Chapman University Law School and a nationally syndicated radio talk show host who blogs daily at HughHewitt.com.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2012/01/why-gop-primaries-didnt-matter-1952-1980-and-2012/2148226

not to be thread police but that is not especially wild/funny right-wingery and it's about normal electoral politics anyway

quick someone link to fr

I shoulda put it on the GOP primary thread. Sorry

http://www.infowars.com/cameron-fleeing-america-to-escape-collapse/

The Bush family purchased 100,000 acres in Paraguay back in 2006.

is this breitbart/derrick bell stuff too 'mainstream' for this thread

just to catch people up if theyre interested

- breitbart is bragging before he dies that he has a video that will bring down obama
- today buzzfeed says theyve got the video breitbart was talking about: a boston public news broadcast about obama (as pres of harvard law review) coming out in support of (harvard law prof) derrick bell's push for the school to hire more women/minorities. was apparently a big deal at the time as obama was seen as moderate on campus.
- breitbart outlets accuse buzzfeed of -- not even joking here this is a direct quote -- "selective editing"
- breitbart.com publishes their video. it is... exactly the same as buzzfeeds. except lower quality.
- PBS also publishes the video to show its not edited

selected reading in more or less reverse chronological order

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/07/buzzefeed-selectively-edits-obama-tape
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/03/07/derrick-bell-obama-wright-farrakhan-hbo-blaxploitation
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/03/07/Andrea%20Mitchell%20Runs%20Defense%20For%20Obama%20Derrick%20Bell
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/the-story-behind-the-obama-law-school-speech-video/
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/03/07/Ben-Smith-Harvard-Obama
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/meet-derrick-bell
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/at-harvard-obama-dived-into-diversity-fight

It's hard to imagine this can catch much fire in 2012. If the "Ayers connection" didn't convince you, why would Derrick Bell?

possibly the funniest thing about the whole kerfluffle is that PBS ran clips from the speech in 2008 as part of their election special. breitbart could have avoided this whole thing if only hed watched PBS!

it's really underwhelming. breitbart was promoting this thing so hard, and it's like, this is his posthumous masterpiece and it's pretty lackluster

r.i.p. big man

breitbart and bell are both dead now

isn't that ~convenient~

saw the video on buzzfeed. so that's... it? i assume hannity's going to spend 89% of the segment talking up what a 'radical' bell was.

BEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAVE! /beetbort

oh shit i cant believe obama was for a place hiring more non white men. shocked and outraged by this kenyan socialist witch doctor i am, what a terrorist.

Just checking, racialist = he talked about race and this word sounds like racist, y?

Racialist began its life as a word that meant: someone who believed the conventionally-identified races, which at the time were mostly color-coded as yellow, black, brown, white, red, were inherently quite distinct from one another, and that one could isolate these qualities and be certain to find them in any "pure-blooded" individual of that race. From that unpromising beginning it was a baby step to the whole modern racist fiasco.

http://www.theconservativeteen.com/themes/conservative/images/Cover2.jpg

it was so nice to have the debt-paying generation arrive, i welcomed them

Ooo! Why Abstinence works! They've finally cracked the code!

available online for free!

http://krtins.longboys.net/Winter-2011-TCT/index.html

all its articles appear to be written by vice-presidents of think tanks and retired teachers, i predict it shall be a great success

Making Sense
Ronald Regan, Our First Black President?
by Michael Reagan
The Reagan Report
length: 1091 words

^^ unless this is about how james k. polk was really part creole or something i really don't wanna know where this is going

oh ha shit my eye completely glossed over the presence of "Ronald Reagan" in that sentence

welp.

Is that Alan Keyes that is Making the Sense in that article?

omg they took the whole website down

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Awww, i wanted to see what was is /glee

in, rather

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/03/the-terrible-no-good-very-bad-month-for-the-left.php

Man, that's just full-on bizarro land

http://i.imgur.com/LWc3t.jpg

lol

Elizabeth Blackney ‏ @MediaLizzy Close
Dear @BarackObama: call your predecessor, when oil spiked on his watch - he got prices at the pump back down to $1.67 before he left.

http://i.imgur.com/wkKMA.png

TV Schedule

http://creationwiki.org/Main_Page

http://www.prlog.org/11845940-natural-history-museums-misled-school-children.pdf

"The Smithsonian Museum, the Carnegie Museum and the American Museum of Natural History have withheld the most important modern bird and mammal fossils from their public dinosaur displays, and may have misled children by implying that dinosaur times were more strange and unusual than they really were."

"Dinosaur times."

In this week's Dinosaur Times, the big green one complains about life, and the littler one offers snark in return.

Egypt is also called by the name Mistrayim which translates to Mizraim, or Ham’s son. Mizraim is the grandson of Noah from the Bible and is believed to be the founder of the land of Egypt. (Genesis 10:6,13 ) After living in Babel, Mizraim took his family to live in the land of Egypt. He brought with him his 8 children, 4 of which were girls and 4 of which were boys. By calculating the marriages of his children, and the amount of children an average couple would have during that time, it can be estimated that over the course of 30 years each couple would have around 8 children each. This approximation would lead to around 30,000 descendants of Mizraim over the course of 150 years which would be around the time the first pyramid was constructed.

lotsa bonin' on the nile

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and then Mizraim surveyed the vast expanse and 69'd his wife until they both were about to explode, and then God commanded MIzraim to dangle her off of the cliff upside-down and bone her like that as well, and so he did.

Exodus 14:5-6

Man that shit makes the Song of Solomon look like bad softcore.

Dinosaur Times' obits are pretty good reads, actually

http://prospect.org/article/mad-money

In January 2011, the advocacy group Utah Sound Money released a 30-second ad designed to stir up support for a new bill in the state legislature. “The almighty dollar’s not looking so almighty these days,” the announcer intones as storm clouds fill the screen. “The feds have us tap-dancing at the edge of financial ruin.” A small map of the U.S. totters along a rising red graph of debt. Suddenly, blue skies open as a giant gold coin floats down, using the Constitution as a parachute. “Restoring an inflation-proof, sound-money option offers a time-tested option,” the announcer concludes over the laughter of children at play. Viewers are then urged to support the Utah Sound Money Act.

Sponsored by Representative Brad Galvez, a Republican, the bill would make gold and silver coins from the U.S. Mint legal tender in the state. Although no businesses or individuals are compelled to use them, Galvez’s bill requires the state to accept the coins for tax payments or any government fees. Galvez says he was motivated by a fear that the nation’s mounting debt could lead to a loss of faith in the dollar, resulting in hyperinflation and possibly a currency collapse. He wanted to protect Utah, he says, from this calamity by creating an alternative to “fiat” currency, under which the dollar is backed by the “faith and credit” of the U.S.—not, as it once was, by gold reserves.

The Utah measure might sound like one of the many thousands of fringe bills that get filed in state legislatures and then are never heard of again—except occasionally as a punch line on late-night TV. But Galvez’s bill became law last year. Now he’s working on new proposals to make silver and gold easier to use. While Utah is the first state to pass such a law, others are trying. In the 2011–2012 legislative cycle, bills were introduced in 17 states to either recognize gold and silver coins or study the options for alternative currencies.

Goldbuggery makes me want to go on a shooting spree.

huh, for whatever reason I thought it was illegal to introduce other forms of currency

"gold and silver coins from the U.S. Mint" <-- key phrase

It's so frustratingly unevolved

http://dontvoteobama.net/

Barack Obama - Either Doing His Best In One of The Most Difficult Times In American History, Or Hitler

Barack Obama, the first black president, proved to millions this year that he is either trying his best to lead the nation during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, or he is the modern-day incarnation of Adolph Hitler pushing his Socialistic agenda. One of the two.

In 2010, Barack Obama made a number of political compromises while still trying to pursue many of the reforms laid out during his 2008 campaign. Also, he was a totalitarian monster comparable to the perpetrator of one of the worst genocides in history.

Barack is either a president who passed a comprehensive health care measure despite staunch opposition from powerful private interests, or a radical-Islamist sympathizer bent on systematically dismantling American democracy and eradicating all human liberty. (he successfully socialized healthcare against the will of the people)

Barack either assisted all Americans by lowering taxes while failing to communicate that effectively, or he is pure evil destroying our government from the inside out with insurmountable debt.
Barack Obama, IS TWO of the most important people of 2010: the one who was elected to be president of the United States and execute laws to the best of his ability, and the one who murders senior citizens (government healthcare) murders babies (abortion) and hates all white people (his own book). Only history will say which he is for sure.

Haaa

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/strange_anomalies_in_the_famous_situation_room_photo.html

Compare the size of surrounding heads in the "Situation Room" photo to the size of Obama's head. Even if you use a perspective argument -- in which objects appear smaller at a greater distance -- then why are the faces behind Obama still larger? Marshall Webb's head is larger as well, and keep in mind that Marshall is sitting next to Obama (on the same plane).

Mara Zebest is a graphic artist and co-author for a number of Adobe product books, including the Inside Photoshop series, which typically exceeded 1,000 pages and has been published in at least ten different languages around the world. She is also tech editor for numerous books for both Adobe and Microsoft products and has worked closely with the Cold Case Posse (CCP) for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) in providing evidence on Obama's forged birth certificate.

she can literally tell from some of the pixels

She's Zebest

i think the real mystery here is why some old white men's craniums expand until death

my favorite is still the discovery of the layers in the long-form birth certificate image

Mara Zebest is a graphic artist and co-author for a number of Adobe product books, including the Inside Photoshop series, which typically exceeded 1,000 pages

because of course the amount of pages is what defines a book's value

http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2012/05/10/barack-obamas-bullying-of-coretta-prayfcoretta/

Oh, I’m sorry: was that unfair? Let me keep repeating this: the Left will not win a “Whose candidate is weirder?” contest.

so pathetic

this is just sad. it's RS though, so give them their pills and change their diapers and look away

tbf I think the romney bullying story is noise

it's RS though, so give them their pills and change their diapers and look away

read this as rolling stone and it parsed just fine

the romney bullying story is noise and weirdly specious-seeming but lol good riddance i hope people continue to assassinate his character all over the place, plus it gave us the immortal line "he can't look like that!"

you can hear that poster flexing his arm, cracking his knuckles, and raising his eyebrow through that line

http://accstudios.com/i/lfa_1_page12.jpg

"We are not afraid to tell the world the truth about Cora."

You guys have to remember here that Moe Lane is mentally retarded.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii

http://i.imgur.com/IkOw0.png

The errant Obama biography in the Acton & Dystel booklet does not contradict the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate. Moreover, several contemporaneous accounts of Obama’s background describe Obama as having been born in Hawaii.

The biography does, however, fit a pattern in which Obama--or the people representing and supporting him--manipulate his public persona.

I actively pray for birthers to do a Heaven's Gate scenario they annoy me so fuckin bad gaaah

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/18/did-elizabeth-warren-plagiarize-pow-wow-chow-recipes

I bet The Onion were surprised they were in the will.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/in-conservative-media-a-race-war-rages

this just in: racists hate being called racist

ugh Ward Connerly. was so pissed when he got appointed to the UC Regents

well written summary!

"To the press, the only hate crimes are straight white men somehow committing acts of violence against people who are not straight white men."

It's the somehow that gets me.

"I think it's only recently that there have been outspoken voices, particularly on blogs, saying, 'Shut up Jesse Jackson, we're tired of you,'" she said.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . .

Dan Riehl, a conservative blogger who runs Riehl World View and contributes to Breitbart News, said that black-on-white violence isn't as predominant as other criminal-victim dynamics, but he still argued the news media have a special incentive to over-report stories of white criminals.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . .

These people really do live in fucking fantasyland. You simply cannot have a conversation with people starting from premises as fundamentally mistaken as these are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUXDKnL4xGE

i have literally taken shits that were smarter than that woman. they were marginally less spiteful.

uh i don't even know what to link to, but there is some kind of bizarre legal blog war going on between a bunch of online liberals i've never heard of and conservatives. the key guy is "the speedway bomber" turned some kind of activist, Brett Kimberlin

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345561/20120525/brett-kimberlin-speedway-bomber-blogger-terrorist.htm

apparently it started with somebody faking a 911 call about a shooting and getting the SWAT team called to a conservative blogger's home

the whole thing is really fucked up.

yeah michelle malkin and "twitchy" have been going on about this on twitter for the last week or so

calling a swat team on someone is obviously fucked up but patterico's hed was like "I Could Have Been Killed for Blogging" which is just

yeah this is the victim of the attack (i think if you get the SWAT team involved it's not a "prank" anymore

http://patterico.com/

http://patterico.com/2012/05/25/convicted-bomber-brett-kimberlin-neal-rauhauser-ron-brynaert-and-their-campaign-of-political-terrorism/

what does it mean that i've never heard of any of these 'leftists' before? like not one time ever.

oh wait, that happened last year? then what's happening now? ok idg this at all

glenn beck seized on it for his radio show a couple weeks ago and malkin has been pushing it since then

count on the corner! this is a summary of what just happened i take it

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/301263/arrested-blogging-maryland-jonathan-h-adler

It's a bunch of loons in a trailer park scanning eachother's phone calls, poisoning eachother's dogs, and calling the police five times a day. Getting all Sam Spade on internet machines at the library to prove that the Masons are running the whole thing.

well it's a little more serious than that, one guy was just thrown in jail for a night

It just keeps getting weirder.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/05/25/opening_act_blog_about_brett_kimberlin_day.html

managed to convince a technologically illiterate judge that this was incitement...

Huh? I would imagine that whatever technological form is used to publish an incitement, it is still recognizable as incitement because of what it says. Now, if the judge had been just plain illiterate, maybe it would have some bearing.

he doesn't even understand that it's okay to be a shithead on the internet!

I'm trying to understand why crazy cousin larry went to jail, but right now I have only incoherant stories from crazy cousin larry’s family about how the government is conspiring with the lowdown sonofabitch across the way who done kilt their dog. As far as I can figure, crazy cousin larry was arrested for minding his own business because the cops and the whole town are against crazy cousin larry's family for no other reason than that they are right with the lord.

I'm not defending the lowdown sonofabitch across the way who done kilt their dog. He's crazier than cousin larry! It looks like he's been harassing crazy cousin larry's family with frivolous lawsuits and calls to 911.

Larry's only been in jail for two days, so it's probably too soon to call it a sign of end days. I suspect it will be sorted out. I keep telling crazy cousin Larry's family to work with the authorities and to quit pamphleting the neighborhood and digging through the lowdown-sonofabitch-across-the-way-who-done-kilt-their-dog's garbage, but I just saw crazy cousin larry's ma on the roof with some binoculars and a police scanner.

"the lowdown sonofabitch across the way who done kilt their dog" = guy who set off a bunch of bombs, one of which blew off someone's leg

Oh god, I remember this guy! He was a speaker at the 4th of July Smoke-out march in DC when I went back in like 95 or 96? My impression of him was that he was wackily psychotic and is one of the main reasons that I don't really go to political protests anymore, if I can avoid them. I had no idea about the bombings until now. That's super scary. I was like 16 years old, smoking pot, and sitting a few yards away from a convicted bomber. Fuck this guy.

"the lowdown sonofabitch across the way who done kilt their dog" = guy who set off a bunch of bombs, one of which blew off someone's leg

my analogy still holds up. have you ever seen a horror movie?

it's really weird how the response is "make this guy famous!" instead of "this guy is schizophrenic and needs help"

the Brynaert email is really deranged too.

i gather kimberlin has claimed (in legal proceedings?) that he's not a 'public figure' and so talking about the speedway bombings should be off limits. so 'making him famous' is both trolly and, idk, not wrong either.

i'm basically with the wingers on this one, kimberlin and these dudes seem like bonafide creeps, and if you've gotten to the point of messing around with lethal police powers for yuks you can go die afaic.