Guess we should now refer to the One as, like, the Two then, yes? From Rasmussen:
[…] following a Vice Presidential acceptance speech viewed live by more than 40 million people, Palin is viewed favorably by 58% of American voters. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 37% hold an unfavorable view of the self-described hockey mom.
The figures include 40% with a Very Favorable opinion of Palin and 18% with a Very Unfavorable view.
[…]
Perhaps most stunning is the fact that Palin’s favorable ratings are now a point higher than either man at the top of the Presidential tickets this year. As of Friday morning, Obama and McCain are each viewed favorably by 57% of voters. Biden is viewed favorably by 48%.
There is a strong partisan gap when it comes to perceptions of Palin. Eighty-nine percent (89%) of Republicans give her favorable reviews along with 33% of Democrats and 59% of voters not affiliated with either major party.
[my emphasis]
Recall, Palin was chosen to energize the GOP “base” of social conservatives, but her appeal clearly spills over to right-leaning civil libertarians and at least a not insignificant number of Democrats.
Of course, people haven’t yet seen how very short she is (well, except in Alaska, where she has an 80% approval rate, I mean), so I suppose they could change their minds. After all, Janet Reno’s popularity was clearly a function of her enormity.
Perception being reality and all.
Yet another check drawn by a pointless polling company. That’s a growth industry right there, my friend.
The One Point Seven Five, maybe? Because of the shortness.
That’s it. Make it a contest between Obama and Palin. Get Obama to address Palin directly. Get Obama to compete with Palin. Yesssss. The plan is working. The plan is working.
OT: just received another email from a regular who is leaving. That’s two folks today who’ve notified me of their intentions — to go along with the several, conspicuous by their absences, who have not.
To which I say, thanks for the support.
Everytime I begin to think it’s worth it, I’m reminded of just how much it’s not. Swell.
Jeff, I ain’t going anywhere.
Unless … they’re all leaving because of me?
Drop me a line.
–Comment by Jeff G. on 9/5 @ 4:15 pm #
I won’t ask who, but I will ask why.
The reason is because my comments section has become a cesspool. Which is really just another way of saying I haven’t banned thor and nishi.
It’s Karl redux.
So fine, people want them banned, I’ll ban them. After all, the customer is always right. And unfortunately, I rely on the pittance I make here to keep me in training gear and my family in once-a-week pizzas or Chinese food.
So you all own my ass. Congrats!
He announced his decision to decamp both here and on his own blog. Sure hope he changes his mind.
As for “short”, I guess that, since James “Shrimpie” Madison has already written the Constitution, there’s just nothing left for Governor Palin to accomplish in life.
It’s over at the pup. Sorta. Nishi and thor. Sewer comments.
Pub. duh. shit, maybe people are leaving because of my typos? I’ll proof-read. I swears.
I’m gonna take the cesspool thing personally. Really, Jeff, it’s more of a slam on us than you.
Oh, Jeff, you have me laughing…earlier today Janet Reno popped into my mind. After I cleaned up the vomit in the car, I remembered Bill Clinton saying “We have a pretty darn good AG, donchya think?” This right around that hot fire thing down in Texas.
And a happyfeet’s faithful one hundred percent. So there’s that. People can learn a lot from turtles I think. It’s okay to just sit in your little shell until the scary goes away and then you can bask and bask.
Jeff-is banning going to bring anyone back?
I hate to see you go against your principals.
Happy, NPR was talking about African dust causing all these bad storms. They didn’t tie it in how Bush/Rove fit into it. I was wondering if you had any idea.
Madison defeated Clinton. Look it up.
Hey! I just got through on Hugh Hewitt and spoke on the freakin’ radio!
But I won’t say which one I was because I used my real name. I didn’t want Hugh spending precious time stumbling over “dicentra? what kind of name is that?”
Guess it sometimes pays to call in sick to work.
I remember the African dust from awhile back. I am a lot certain that a comprehensive knowledge of African dust won’t really help us with the Hurricane menace though. NPR people are really easily distracted I’ve noticed.
Happy, NPR was talking about African dust causing all these bad storms. They didn’t tie it in how Bush/Rove fit into it.
If Bush cared he would send them vacuums. Duh.
That’s so cool, d! I could never call into a thing like that. Not sure why. But Hugh Hewitt, I’ve never heard him before. I think he’s from around here. Like he used to work at a PBS station here or something.
I dig Lipstick Libertarians.
Janet Reno looks like an ugly version of Julia Child.
Jeff: it’s your shop, man. I’ll be here reading no matter what you decide. I’ve been called worse by better men than thor, frankly.
If you decide to let them stay, maybe they could be encouraged to not repost the same bullshit they’ve already posted a thousand times before? That’s more like spam than free speech, IMO, and doesn’t do much to advance the conversation.
Just dropped $20.12 in your tip jar, btw.
Jeff doesn’t have to ban anyone. If thor defecates on people who are trying to have a civil conversation one more time, I’ll ban him from my threads. I’m tired of the hijacking. Not every issue boils down to a referendum on who’s the bigger asshole.
I’m not leaving because of the trolls, either, though it is discouraging to see a thread extend to 300 comments solely on troll droppings.
Look, we all know nishi and thor’s shtick, we all know they are more interested in stirring it up than having a civil conversation, so all that’s left is the self-discipline to not feed the fargin’ trolls.
A troll ignored is a troll undone. Think about it, won’t you?
Nishi actually wants to be banned, so you’d be doing her a favor. She’d be all ‘Ha! I even got Goldstein to ban me!’ She collects bannings and you’re like her Honus Wagner.
Perhaps you could just disemvowel thor until he learns to behave like a human being.
Gack. The only reason thor hangs out here at all is that he still manages to piss some people off, who then respond to him, and then he’s on a roll. I think the people who want them banned, Jeff, are probably the same folks who are feeding the troll.
Nishi is kind of the same, except she just responds only with some other random combination of crap. Don’t take her seriously.
Friends don’t let friends feed the trolls.
Palin is only -1.5 sigma height-wise. Reno is plus three sigma or more. But not elected; selected.
How about you supply the username Thor and Nishi are allowed to use if they want to comment, like
IamaMysgonistCrapHole for Thor, or something like that?
It’s a thought.
I have genuine fondness for them. There are real people I think what sometimes peak through their personas. Good ones I think.
We wuv oo, Jeff.
So they leave. So what? Are you doing this to be popular or because you want to say something. You aren’t a junior high school girl afraid to say something lest the ‘cool kids’ and the cheerleaders snub you?
Subdivisions —
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions —
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Do what you think is right and to heck with the others.
Long time lurker here. I’d hate to ban anyone for ideas, but I agree with Spies–if they’re posting the same crap all the time, and disrupting discourse with a constant barrage of non sequiturs or contentless and pointless vulgarities, then they’re trolls. Banning them wouldn’t be an assault on free speech as much as de-spamming the boards to allow free speech to proceed unfettered.
Up to you. I’m back to reading you regularly now that you’re back to posting more regularly and I’d hate to see you give up now.
There’s like a female race of Northern giants that goes to University of Richmond. I usually don’t think much about my height, as it is not a conspicuous one, but a bunch of 5’10” or taller frosh can make you wonder what went wrong with your wonder bread all those years ago.
“Well I turned around and I said ho, ho
And the northern lights commenced to glow
And she said, with a tear in her eye
Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow
Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow”
-Frank Zappa
If Sarah so short how’s come she did ok in basketball.
I agree with Spies … Banning them
Hold on a second, Paula — I said nothing about banning them, just encouraging them to come up with some new material once in a while.
Does banning even work in the long run? I mean in the short term, but can’t they just hijack an IP eventually or something?
Anyway, Thor thinks he’s clever by disrupting this blog then runs back to his hermetically sealed, tightly controlled
echo chamberscomments departments at the likes of Firegog lady and giggles at how funny and smart he is. And then all his tolerant and enlightened goobers laugh their ass off at their sexist, bigoted lefty talk.“Governor Palin’s political and media enemies have not yet drawn blood. Thinking to condemn her, for example, the director of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance told the Associated Press: “Her philosophy from our perspective is cut, kill, dig and drill.” Reasonable people might construe that as a compliment. Indeed, it sounds like a winning slogan, if not a platform.”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/09/021436.php
Full disclosure: I did edit one of thor’s comments in one of my threads in the pub the other day (his n-hundredth scummy riff on the sexual behavior of the Palin children). I haven’t edited any of his personal attacks on me.
If Sarah so short how’s come she did ok in basketball.
Considering the source of the original report I would like some outside confirmation of Palin’s actual height. Just sayin’.
If Jeff had the time or the inclination, he could edit certain comments for the entertainment of himself and others.
But banning doesn’t work because, unless I miss my guess, you can’t ban by IP address. I was a moderator of a popular Yahoo group once, and one of our trolls (a former very popular moderator herself who went off her meds and ’round the twist) created no fewer than 100 Yahoo e-mail accounts to sneak through the barriers.
So banning isn’t the solution it seems. Protein Wisdom isn’t proprietary software, like LGF, where Charles can exercise a highly granular degree of control over who gets in and who doesn’t. I mean, Charles’s well-honed lizard-sense can tell if you sign up from a whole new ISP on another continent. Must be the smell…
Most blog software does let you ban by IP address, dicentra.
I’m here for the Goldstein first and the commentariat second. I’m not sure exactly when I started really reading this blog, but seem to recall that trolls have always been part and parcel of the place. I mean without trolls would anyone ever truly appreciate the sheer genius of phone technician in a time of roaming?
Of course, Nishi really does crave the ban stick, but only on her terms.
“Protein Wisdom isn’t proprietary software, like LGF”
That’s why I don’t read LGF anymore. Way too much of an echo chamber.
I preface this by saying my opinion does not mean sh!t
Banning people is usually done on a case by case basis based on the level of profanity, idiocy, racism, or lunacy. Thor and Nish fit all four of those factors. Sometimes thor is a good troll and actually presents an argument. Sorry thing is that his arguments usually desolve after 4 comments into calling people racists. The only thought I have about Nishi is that she is probably insane. They both have had some profanity laced tirades in the past couple days directed at Sarah Palin that have been so far over the top they deserve banning. Which is all just my sh!tty opinion that I have been told means nothing.
Good point about the height. Could be heels, I guess. But I’ve seen her in enough crowd shots, and she didn’t strike me as diminutive. Then again, I could have been looking at her rack.
I’m behind ya all the way. All the way to the end. …………….Unless you had beans for dinner……………..or you wear a thong. Except for those two things I’m behind ya all the way.
Comment by dre on 9/5 @ 5:37 pm #
“Protein Wisdom isn’t proprietary software, like LGFâ€Â
That’s why I don’t read LGF anymore. Way too much of an echo chamber.
Yeah I can’t stand that either, which is why part of me wishes that Thor and nishi would just spew their leftist ideas without the profanity or the thread hijacking. I mean nishi has disolved into calling people cudlips in every sentence, and thor just calls Palin a cunt at every oportunity.
Jeff, I guess it depends on what you are aiming for here. It’s your blog, after all. I don’t get the feeling that you want to be an authoritarian. So just do what you want. Don’t let ‘regulars’ pressure you into doing something that you don’t feel good about.
“Feel the force, Luke. It surrounds and binds us all.”
Use the instrument panel, Luke. That’s what it’s there for.
I admire a good round of verbal abuse. I really think it’s retarded that any of you want him banned. 100 people can’t take on 2?
Jeez, let it go, have fun with it.
him = them
I can’t believe you guys even talk about Nishi’s comments. I can’t even read them, they’re fucked up truncated babytalk.
RoA, I don’t mind, but that he goes out of his way to insult people. It’s just not cool.
There’s plenty of room for dissent here. Scatalogical ad hominem invective just gets really old pretty quickly.
Good one, Dan. Can I steal it?
We must keep Jeff happy. He writes such funny shit when he is happy. I really don’t want him getting all turned off because of this silliness and closing up shop.
Sure, but remember to spell scatological right.
I don’t even know who nishi is, but I’m back to reading PW, because Jeff is writing. :)
No, the instrument panel one. The scata whatever requires that I open a dictionary.
I refuse!
We must keep Jeff happy.
Time for a paypal bomb!
Oh, Log Cabin, that’s from “Thumb Wars.”
Hey Jeff I know you do not value my opinion but I think you take some of this stuff way to personally. Maybe that is cause I have no personal steak or involvment in this though.
Baracky I think has poisoned a lot of people with his hate and anger is all.
The media helped. No, really.
BTW, ‘feets, are you serious you don’t know who Hewitt is? 870 KRLA 3-6pm PDT.
Before Obama picked his veep, he was speculating about Joe Biden and saying, “Please God, please.”
Hugh does good interviews.
I don’t even know who nishi is.
She’s currently posting as “quelcrist falconer,” which is why I wondered at what level you could ban folks.
As for LGF, the comments aren’t worth the trouble (the threads are pretty much interchangeable anymore), but the front page is informative, and the links that people post can be a good round-up of what’s hot on the ‘sphere.
I love you guys. *sob*
Maybe that is cause I have no personal steak or involvement in this though.
Hey, where do you get those personal steaks? I could sure use one today.
(sorry, but you set it up!)
I don’t think Jeff is taking it personally, from what I can tell there are people that are complaining about different views from their own. It makes them MAD. GODZILLA ANGRY! STOMP! MAD! STOMP!
Really guys, I think it’s brave of Thor and Nishi (are they the same?) to do battle so overwhelmed. Plus it moves the thread along. I mean what do you guys want? Colmes? A pushover? Someone who can be molded? Hell no, you want to hone your skills on some real monsters… Don’t you? I mean what if you are at your in-laws house and they are big Obama fans? How are you going to confront that if you can’t confront this?
Hey! I just got through on Hugh Hewitt and spoke on the freakin’ radio!
Congratulations!
Bummer, Jeff.
I agree with you that thor and nishi should be allowed to speak (first amendment and all), but I can also see how some people could be fed up.
Both of them have lost any alignment with what is going on here, and have become totally inane. I can deal with that, but trying to have a discussion with either one of them lately is like pissing into the wind. They make absolutely no sense anymore, and are pretty much not worth replying to, because their responses sound like someone who did a huge line of PCP, thinking it was cocaine. They have pretty much turned to insults and gibberish to get their impenetrable points across.
I have no problem with you banning them. They have both become incoherent in recent posts. I have absolutely no idea what nishi is even trying to say lately. And thor is riding her coat tails, spitting in people’s faces as he flys by.
I ain’t leaving though, no matter what your decision.
I think that the people who are leaving should be able to ignore those two twits if it bothers them, but – oh well. I have no idea who they are and don’t want to know. I just don’t understand how a couple of babbling infants would bother anyone that much.
For myself, I love seeing Obama’s base rear it’s ugly head here. It makes me even more sure that Obama is panicking for a reason! And make no mistake. He is panicking.
Sending all those “women” out to the talk shows to besmirch Sarah Palin’s reputation with more false smears just shows that he is even stupider than we thought. He got away with it with Hillary, but is stupid enough to think that ham handedness won’t be noticed even after it already has been noticed and been given the big brumpski by anyone who doesn’t masturbate to DKos every day! Every Dem I know is disgusted with Obama and his band of scumbags.
What an arrogant fool!
But I won’t miss nishi or thor, Obama’s storm troopers. They really no longer are speaking English, as far as I am concerned. Don’t let them tear this place apart. That is exactly what they are trying to do. Just for some progg grins. Nobody is going to miss two little children who throw feces around the room – not noticing that their own hands and faces are covered with it.
As distasteful as it is to send them on their way, you have worked too hard to have them destroy this oasis of sanity and intelligence.
Whatever, Jeff. I’m with you, whatever you decide.
TLD
Hey! I just got through Hugh Hewitt and spoke with him as a meat puppet! He was pretty easy to get inside. His skin was pretty much like paper.
RoA, my in-laws, however much they disagreed with me, wouldn’t start projecting homophobia onto me. Nor would I them. Also, we can just punch one another.
I found a couple of sites that say Sarah Palin is 5′ 6.5″. That makes more sense for a basketball player (and beauty contestant, for that matter). I’ve got a half inch on her, so yay, wonder bread.
The other thing is, if, say, my brother Enoch started talking to someone at a bar the way they do to my online friends, I’d punch him, even if I agreed with his point.
I don’t read LGF comments at all. THEY are a cesspool of inanity. While I don’t think thor or nishi should be banned, at times they become extremely idiotic and annoying. If we could do “thread time-outs” that would be perfect.
Like when nishi starts repeating herself. She has four memes. Whenever she starts repeating them … really, she’s done for the thread.
“Also, we can just punch one another.”
One can dream though. A verbal punch is sometimes worse than a real one. Hell, my parents taught me that better than anybody. Great, now you have dredged up memories from my childhood, hold me… Oh wait, you can’t.
:-)
So with that hair and some heels, she could pretty much be taller than Putin.
I’m guessing. Unless Putin has one of those hats on.
Time for sliders.
Later…
Oh goody.
Here’s what Obama’s “Universal Voluntary Public Service” really entails.
Question: Would it be OK for me to join one of these groups, then use the techniques I learned therein to destroy it from inside?
Hey! I just got through Hugh Hewitt and spoke with him as a meat puppet! He was pretty easy to get inside. His skin was pretty much like paper.
It was lots like Vincent D’Onofrio in MiB, only without the BDS.
Sarah Palin is of above-average height.
I looked up how to do a beehive the other day, and then I remembered that movie with the stiletto and thought better of copying it.
I’m not really much of a joiner.
Now I’m scared of Hugh Hewitt and his paper skin.
Loooong time lurker here Jeff. I hope you don’t ban anyone. About 40% of the fun of PW is watching the regulars beat on the trolls. The rest ofcourse is that girl whose nipples I am too drunk to remember. Or something like that.
Well, it might go either direction, you know. Either of us would probably politely say, “Dude, what’s your fucking problem?” before hauling off.
At 81,
“Many of today’s youth find the pitch attractive. “I may spend the rest of my life trying to create social movement,” said Brian Coovert of the Cincinnati chapter. “There is always going to be work to do. Until we have a perfect country, I’ll have a job.””
Do you ever do that cross-face thing?
“social movement”? How useless a life could that be.
“#Comment by SarahW on 9/5 @ 6:27 pm #
Now I’m scared of Hugh Hewitt and his paper skin.”
The skin’s nothing. He’s a Cleveland Browns fan that puts him pyscho territory.
Make a new mousetrap. Explore something. Make a baby and teach it to sing and to read. Do something useful.
Jeff
Over at Patterico the was a guy that got banned for a time for being an idiot.
The banning was temporary and I don’t think the guy knew exactly how long it’d be.
I know you are libertarian, but sometimes “do what you like, but you just can’t do it here” is a useful tool to maintain civility
I bolted marketing this week for education, full time. One’s a growth industry, though the difference between the two is growing harder to discern.
oh. Buenos suerte in your new life, Dan. That means good luck.
Speaking of LGF, that’s where I first had the pleasure of “meeting” nishi. ‘Course back then she was known as Jinnderella and wasn’t down with the texting nitwit persona. She had a real thing for Charles Johnson if I remember correctly, but then again she had many masks. She always stopped by Discarded Lies when she found the time in her busy-converting-to-Islam schedule to drop a couple nuggets of wisdom for out benefit though.
Lovely person.
Was it alphie, SteveG?
Y muchas cervezas a te.
Google says that means many beers to you. That is a nice sentiment I think.
Personally I amazed that anyone reads what Thor or Nishi has to say. When I see their names, I simply skip on to the next comment & if the rest of the thread continues on whatever track they’ve set, I move on to the next post by Jeff or see whats in the pub.
Banning just gives them too much attention, which they seem to crave. They aren’t worth any attention, must less any action.
Sorry to misquote, Spies.
I do think that ignoring trolls is the only effective way to keep them from derailing discussion. Sometimes people enjoy slashing back, but I think ultimately it’s giving them what they really want. And I’m against that.
Jaysus Mary and Joseph! First it was a “beehive” and now a “bun” for height.
I’m old enough to remember actual beehives … Mrs. Gunn my 4th grade teacher, who would step into the coatcloset and use half a can of Aqua Net to keep that 6 or 7 inch torpedo on top of her head upright and lacquered into submission.
When my hair was longer and I was in a hurry, grabbing the hair, quick twist and held in place with a clip or even a strategically placed fancy chopstick and voila, a Palin ‘do.
Keeps your hair out of your eyes while you’re kicking Obama’s ass.
Screw it. I’m skipping Blog World Expo and taking happyfeet down to Mexico City for a two-week bender.
I remember beehives, but only on the B-52’s and comedy sketches. Although I think I have a faint memory of a friend of my mothers – around the age of three – that had a beehive. What year did they REALLY go out of style?
“Yanks should give thanks for Sarah
Published: 05 Sep 2008
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DON’T you wish we had politicians like American Republican Sarah Palin instead of the identikit, spineless amoebas that infest Westminster?
This woman has got more balls than most British male MPs. She would get my vote in an instant.
She’s a real gutsy, good-looking woman who is truly the epitome of the feminist dream.
She comes from working-class stock, has used her brains and looks to get on and has carved out a great career as a politician and Governor.
Unlike Barack Obama, she is the real thing  an ordinary person with more than a dream and a snake oil salesman’s patter. ”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/columnists/john_gaunt/article1649828.ece
After Nixon left the White House.
a strategically placed fancy chopstick
I once saw a claim that that was “racist”.
No kidding.
My hair’s long. In the summer I make a chignon held in place with a self-knot to keep it out of the way.
I’m more of a nape of the neck person.
And here’s Bill Whittle, who always articulates things so well.
Y muchas cervezas
a tepara ti.FTFY
You’re going to Blog World Expo!
Ah yes, it must have been when Nixon resigned. Because the memory of “Sue the beehive lady” is stored in a similar memory area with “water gator” in which I assumed the white house had alligators that attacked the president.
Someone should do a study to see if there is any cultural reason the beehive left at the same time Nixon did.
My mom had nice hair, she wore it every which way. The last photo I have of her with a more beehivey style is 1963-ish
And my aunts HS yearbook had some beehives in 1965.
#107 SBP
What was racist? Using a chopstick or calling it that instead of “hashi” (the pretty lacquered ones I have I got from my Japanese exchange students).
Also, were the chicks with beehives “easy” or something? I mean what stereotype did a chick with a beehive get? I can’t really explain why this interests me other than I am fairly nutty and I think I have a crush on Palin.
Earlier today I asked my wife if she’d wear a skirt and a beehive for me.
She kind of didn’t like that.
If you think Connie Francis and so forth, ’64 would be the last top year I think.
I don’t comment very often, but read every day. A few months ago in a thread about Obama I did comment. Someone had asked about where Obama stood on the war on terror and I commented that no one knew where he stood and that he was a cypher. Thor appeared to insult me about what a policy wonk I was and told me to “just go”. At first I was offended and then I realized that I had no basis for my comment. I had not properly learned all that I could about Obama’s positions, I had a knee jerk reaction to what I deemed a pure socialist, something totally repugnant to me. So I left your blog and starting reading about Senator Obama. I found my instincts to be correct, he is a pure socialist and worse, but my point is that I was challenged by Thor(he is still an asshole and had nor right to tell me to leave Jeff’s site) and learned from the experience. Sorry for the verbiosity, but I think Jeff knows how I feel, nothing worse than being challenged by a total asshole when he’s right.
I think Beehives were normal. Normal hair.
Not in DC, though.
Bad girl hair maybe if you got into those peak-shift styles with exaggerated proportions.
And then now there is Winehouse.
Come to think, My great-aunt Marian wore a conservative beehivey style for most of the sixties and early seventies.
“a” preserves more of the benediction formula, but you’re correct on “ti”: my Italian talking.
SarahW
I think the beehives were totally out of style by 1965 when everyone started wearing Vidal Sassoon’s “bob” .. well, except those that started moving into hippiedom.
I seem to recall that some of Ted Bundy’s victims were beehivey.
Yeah, there is that Baltimore area white trash fag hag thing, isn’t there? I bet they still wear beehives and dirty underwear in Baltimore. Maybe they came up to DC cruising for fun.
No offense to Baltimore – it’s a fine city.
Survivors !
Something to that. We don’t ignore the malefactors and thus stretech the size of the puddles that have to be stepped over. Of course that analysis ignores that those who are studiously avoiding the effluvium are generally suffering form a mental sewer. Serioulsy; they’re just whiny.
Gee, I miss Dusty Springfield.
I don’t get challenged by the fuckposts though. I just ignore him when he’s doing that.
Jeff,
You have goodwill from many of your readers (“your readers” should feel good for you to hear, as perhaps only one who has never had “my readers” would conjure). Talented, smart people (along with some dumbass’s like myself) would like to help you acheive more financial success and the opportunities that arise because of that. But I’m fucking poor.
Part of the fun you should be having with this entity is creating money from the goodwill you’ve earned.
It’s also a fact that Bill Buckley has addressed many of the daily topics that arise on serious political blogs, along with countless other blogs, and the diverting from Bill Buckley’s writing’s and interview’s toward blogs (with the exception, usually, of PW) isn’t intellectually satisfying.
THERE’S GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS
The Vidal Sassoon’s “bobâ€Â, that is what my mom wore until the mid 70’s. But my folks were L7. Country bumpkins trying to fit into the big city. It wasn’t their fault. I think that is why I don’t have any style. I tried it out for a while but it was too much effort. I like strolling Walmart drunk in sweatpants.
They have good deals there man!
If O! loses does the metrosexual persona go with it?
Yeah, there is that Baltimore area white trash fag hag thing, isn’t there?
Those gals are all hoping to star in John Waters’ next flick.
No offense to Baltimore – it’s a fine city.
And that cake show is pretty entertaining.
She’s a femme fatale.
Careful he doesn’t crash his anvil through your rafters while you’re ignoring him. In all likelihood, you won’t even notice.
If we can’t handle the twerps, can we hope to handle their dad Vlad?
Pooten !
Sarah-
Agreed. This was a rare instance when I served it up to him for a slam. My point is that a challenge such as he threw at me needs to be met when your’e not on solid ground. I find that the left often challenges in this manner, but rarely do their challenges stand up to a education. I suspect that their challenges are empty rhetoric in most circumstances.
My mom went sort of Judy collins/Joan Baez for awhile. But she had some really ingenious ways to put up her hair. Not a lot of backcombing, though.
“If O! loses does the metrosexual persona go with it?”
I don’t think so, I think there has ALWAYS been metrosexual – it just keeps getting renamed. I mean it’s sort of a personal thing isn’t it? Kind of like how in grade school you can always tell who is going to grow up and be gay, by high school you can tell who is going to grow up to be a dandy. Sometimes you can even tell in middle school.
My dad had muttonchop sideburns for a couple of weeks.
Bwahahahahaha!
What was racist?
Using the chop stick. Putting it in your hair implies that Asians are filthy animals who like hair in their food. Or something. I don’t remember the details; it was about as strained, convoluted and lackwitted as that laundry-basket-as-tool-of-TEH-PATRIARCHY thing that was mentioned the other day.
My father had those too! It was during the “Elvis comeback” years. He was a big fan of Elvis and R&B but HATED hippies. I earned that from him and I thank him daily for it. Even though he is dead and probably doesn’t care.
Because he is in heaven wearing mutton chops and drinking with Elvis and beating up angel hippies.
I suspect that their challenges are empty rhetoric in most circumstances.
Also, their measurements are wrong.
RoA-
John Edwards was right, there are two Americas, the real one and the one that the media and their heroes in Hollywood make them yearn for. By the way, if you remember middle school I don’t think your’e talking about the same acid I thought you were.
“Comment by SarahW on 9/5 @ 6:25 pm #
Sarah Palin is of above-average height.”
But will she raise everyone’s wages above average?
HUH?
Will she?
I think not!
I only said that because my oldest son is in middle school (jr high?) and is always ribbing one of his buddies for being a “dandy”.
I think when I was in middle school it was the early 80’s so everything was so ugly at that point nothing really mattered as far as style went. Although I do remember that owning an OP shirt was some kind of big fucking deal.
Another day another smear:
Nutcase bloggers will have to find another smear against Sarah Palin … again. Did you hear that Todd Palin’s former business partner tried to get his divorce records sealed? Conspiracy theorists immediately began speculating on line that Sarah Palin  that vixen!  must have had an affair and broken up the marriage. Why else would the partner suddenly act to seal his records?
As the Smoking Gun discovered, Scott Richter wanted them sealed  to protect himself from conspiracy theorists (h/t: William Amos):
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/05/another-palin-smear-bites-the-dust/
My grandma insisted until the day she died that if it weren’t for those darn Beatles, my dad would still have a crewcut. He never had muttonchops, but he did have some longish sideburns in the seventies.
My friend goes to chat rooms, and when someone gets tedious she uses the ignore function to just not see their comments. Is there some technical reason that such a thing can’t be implemented for blog comments?
“OT: just received another email from a regular who is leaving. That’s two folks today who’ve notified me of their intentions  to go along with the several, conspicuous by their absences, who have not.”
Need I remind y’all NOT TO RESPOND, REPLY, REGURGITATE to/on the respective TTP. What were y’all thinking?
If you cut off the oxygen …..
I blame bush.
Oh, the seventies. I had a wafro. Except during wrestling season.
No Brain-
Explain to me how you could possibly raise everyone’s wages above average. Isn’t this a impossible? Isn’t average a moving point? Besides, this is a capitalistic nation(at least for now) and wages are not or shouln’t be a function of our government other than for government employees.
My wife just said the word “sack”, and I found it quite amusing.
The biggest difference, as I see it, between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?
One of them is little more than an elegant, attractive, dare I say sexy piece of eye candy.
The other one kills her own food.
-Jim Treacher
I was just a little kid, and my parents saddled me with a bowl cut. It was awful.
Bastids! You HATE them, right?
Jeff,
It’s your blog bro; do whatever you think is right, and the rest of us will be down wif it.
Although I have only been coming here a few months, I really enjoy your writing. Unless those persons who are leaving are maaaaajor contributors to the threads, or are dropping laaaaarge coin on you, don’t sweat it…
But, if they are making you an offer you can’t refuse, so to speak…Then do what you wanna anyway. You’ll just have to have a “Jeff-a-thon” every once in a while…
You could do the PBS and pass the hat every few months, or there is the yearly Jerry Lewis thang…
Maybe take on more advertising; I hear that O! pays pretty good…
Just kidding man! Let us all know what you need and we’ll see if we can help
Cool Runnin’ Aye-ree
If not, you must not be a proggie.
Comment by Rick Smith on 9/5 @ 7:33 pm #
Um, Rick?
It was a joke.
‘Cause that’s the way I roll.
Sarcasm raises all boats.
“You know, in the darkest days, I think there were a lot of us who just respected him so much we just wanted to band together to make sure to restore his dignity,â€Â
Bjork
No Brain-
My apologies. Not so into the way people roll, I guess. God I miss Monty Python.
Well anyone wanna get back OT? I personally think all the polls other than the election seem to reflect more of a celebrity factor than anything else. Especially the generic ones that just say “do you want to vote for a D or a R”.
I’ve forgiven them. It’s what Barack would want me to do.
Pink-
I believe you picked the one poll that does not reflect the celebrity factor. D or R I think reflects more on the affiliation of people towards party, either inherited, thought out, or judgement of recent successes. It is constantly changing, but has for decades trended slightly towards D’s, in my opinion because of FDR and the depression years.
The flip side of losing a couple of regulars for banning Nishi and Thor is just how many new regulars you will pick up once the stinking piles of incoherent poo are no longer everywhere.
IMHO, Nishi and Thor add less than nothing to the conversation. Does anyone really think Nishi’s one track repetitiveness or Thor’s foul-mouthed insults are really needed to push the threads forward?
I’ll donate $50 bucks to get them banned. Then you can un-ban them when more cash is raised than I used to ban them. And then when we raise more than the un-banners, they can be banned again. It a win-win for us threadmongers and for your bank balance. What do you think?
thor and nishi are punching bags. What’s more fun than hitting a punching bag?
I still suspect that Jeff is sock-puppeting both of them. If not, I take off my hat at his ability to invite comment fodder of their caliber.
I think the polling data on this event is way too yesterday. This campaign is going south on O! day by day. There’s not a damn thing O! and his Chicago thugs can do about it,
Charles-
Just countered with $50(apparently max)as soon as they email my password back to me. Probably a small price to pay for the enjoyment and education I’ve received here. As far as banning, again probably no one reading this blog dislikes Thor more than I do, but again I am as confident in my believes as anyone I know and also know that when I close my mind it’s all over. When I get my password from Amazon I’ll double my contribution.
Sarah’s got a narrative that isn’t a media creation. And the girls are chatting.
Personally, I skipped 90% of Nishi’s posts as too subliterate to waste my time to decipher. The other 10% I managed to read validated my decision to ignore the 90%.
My point exactly. Jeff could easily have a drunken monkey (or armadillo) posting as nishi and thor. Provided he removed its profrontal and lesioned its amygdala.
thor and nishi are just chaff. Blow ’em off. There’s real meat here.
You might be right Rick. In a normal year, (I hope I am not saying that just so I appear non partisan), I would want a Dem to win just for the McCain nomination. The douchebag that sat in a racist church for 20 freakin years is having a great job in his get out the vote drive for me.
Charles Austin-
Done on the $100. Remember this shit when the Dems try to resurrect the Fairness Doctrine. If you don’t like what someone is saying, don’t listen. I’m really not trying to sound superior here, but I have pretty strong feelings about the freedom of speech and the free flow of ideas. I have to keep too much to myself because of what I do for a living.
I like thor and nishi, myself.
nishi reminds me of a woman who sold portraits she made out of her own spittle. They weren’t good or anything and you wouldn’t touch them but hey, whatever.
thor reminds me of an asshole drunk over in the corner. So you just say, “hey thats that asshole drunk over in the corner” and move on.
Separating the meat from the chaff?
Freedom of speech as we use that term in this context is about preventing the government from shutting people up or using the power of the state to punish them for what they say. It does not mean that we have to tolerate every obnoxious piece of twaddle in every forum to respect the principle. Let them open their own blog and see how many people come by to listen in.
But I’m certain Jeff appreciates all our points of view.
Vote with your checkbooks, bitches! Austin, you magnificent capitalist bastard!
“Separating the meat from the chaff?
Gone with the wind. They’ve blown their cover.
Charles-
Are you the ultimate judge of what is twaddle? I don’t mean to offend, but if you don’t like it don’t read it. If you can’t help yourself let Jeff judge what he allows on his site. I’ve been reading him for a few years now and have to say he has more than reasonable except that he has not channeled Anna Nicole as he pretty much promised.
This blog, it is a good blog.
Happy-
A very fine blog.
Sorry, forgot the twoccats in the yard and the extra very.
I may not be able to define twaddle, but I can recognize it when I see it.
Bill Buckley on ‘steering clear of party bores’
.
“I may not be able to define
twaddletwattle, but I can recognize it when I see it.”Fixed that for ya.
Charles-
Again, no offense, but I recognize evasiveness when I see it. I’ll get off my high horse, but my point is clear, let Jeff arbite the content of his site, if things go awry he has proven the ability to deal with it. Did better than I would have many times. Hell, if I had a blog I would probably already have an enemies list longer than the Clinton’s, or even Nixon’s(voted for him not them).
So if you are a “Code Fink” member do you have the right to be an asshole at a Private affair?
The office whore at the Washington Post had to apologize. That’s kind of a big deal.
I will stand up for anyone’s right to be an asshole, anytime, anywhere, matter of fact I encourage it. Love seeing people make assholes’s of themselves, encourages me to engage I guess, but doesn’t give them the right to crash a private function by stealing ID or faking credentials. When they do that I think they should be shot immediately and searched post mordem.
I don’t think I’m being the least bit evasive. I’ve been very clear that I find their posts offensive, obnoxious and thoroughly without socially redeeeming value. I appreciate the wit and wisdom here so much that I’m willing to put my children’s lunch money up to increase the signal to noise ratio by removing some of the screeching noise.
It is Jeff’s site. No argument. It is his call. Again, no argument. But you can’t be all things to all people all of the time. The more Nishi and Thor do their worst to stink up the place, the less I’ll be around. That’s not a threat to walk away or anythng at all like that, but time is limited. Time spent skipping around Nishi and Thor is time not spent reading more thoughtful comments. This may be taking things in a direction Jeff isn’t comfortable with, and if it is, I am sorry about that.
FWIW, I don’t regard Nishi and Thor as enemies. I do regard them as immature fools who delight in wasting other peoples time. Nishi’s act has worn thin and the older I get the less tolerant I am of Thor’s thoroughly non-unique brand of incivility. But YMMV.
Thors man Joe – perpetual brain farter – brain farts yet again!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/oh-that-joe-n-4.html
Gawd this is funny. Get the feeling Biden’s working for Rove?
Charles-
Understand. I’m not trying to defend Thor or Nishi believe me, but I have found the down arrow key to work pretty much the way my TV remote works. Sometimes I lose a little bit of the continuity involved in the discussion but if I get confused I can always use the up arrow.
Happy,
User friendly link here, thanks for the info.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/category/contentions
ferpuckssakes
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/27982
Your link is better.
In this marathon, I don’t think O! has it in him to finish this race. (Sh%t I denounce myself)
BARACK OBAMA: The new Ronald Reagan? “Obama’s path to high office bears an uncanny resemblance to Reagan’sin at least this regard: like Reagan, Obama understands that inexperience can be an asset, not a liability.” Though Reagan did have that background as Governor. I wish people would get things settled on whether inexperience is good or bad, though. Seems to depend on which candidate they’re talking about.
http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/023924.php
This blog is a fantastic blog. I would say it’s the mack daddy of blogs.
Oh and happy, how are the turtles? My daughter’s red slider is doing wonderfully. Although, she does wish to add a dog to her animal collection. Do you have any suggestions? Does happy know dogs?
Happy,
Oh my,
often
easy
suggestion
others follow
I’m really big on dachshunds these days if you want an inside one. I think they’re good for kids cause they have just enough temper to teach them about dogs but they are also protective and watchful and loyal and funny. Outside one … I’m big on border collies – well, border collie mixes if you can find one so they don’t look so much like collies. Charming and brilliant and it will be the best dog you ever had. My turtles need sunshine – it’s been just enough too hot to leave them out while I’m at that place I go during the day.
“I may not be able to define
twaddletwattletwatwaffle, but I can recognize it when I see it.â€ÂFixed it yet again.
dre-
You ask too much. Inexpierence good or bad? Won’t even go there. Reagan had formulated his views especially on foreign relations long before he became a candidate for the Presidency. He gave many speeches and presentations on his views during the Ford and Carter years. The difference between him and Obama as far as inexperience is immense. Reagan, I believe, learned before he started talking, Obama started talking before he learned. Reagan had style, Obama has style, Reagan had substance, Obama not so much.
This one.
WILL
Palin
Personally
One of the reason of her popularity is her sexy image
Is this some kind of tribute? I only have one lighter.
Thanks, happy. I knew you’d be the go to point person on this. My mom is a big collie fan. My mom is also a big Obama fan. I know border collies are different, though. I don’t think a dachshund is in the plans. Perhaps a bloodhound? I’d love a basset, but the whole anal sack thing kind of grosses me out.
like Reagan, Obama understands that inexperience can be an asset, not a liability
JAYSUS, that is some kind of stupid. Reagan was governor of California, two terms. Before that he had been the president of SAG, through some pretty rough times.
Obama gave a speech today In NJ with Bon Jovi as his backup. Said he would not be bullied. Give this a good think. The One, the Messiah, the Changer, the new face and heart of the Democratic Party and the leftists of the world is whining about the treatment he is receiving at the hands of a woman who two years ago was the Mayor of a town of 9,000 in Alaska. I have never seen anything like this in politics, but honestly I never seen anything like Sarah Palin either. The dynamic has been changed maybe more so than with Gary Hart and “Monkey Business” or with Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick. The next two months are going to be ride. It is really a shame that the outcome is so important, otherwise we could just sit back and enjoy it.
Happy,
What would the turtle feel?
When the turtle can think, and create things beyond more turtles, and love?
Not long ago, I read somewhere that Obama responded to a complaint that he had no executive experience by noting that he runs a campaign of 2,500 people. Ok, so by his own admissions his primary qualification for being president is that he’s running for president?
I had an anal sack dog but my dad always did that. She was a good girl until the heartworms got her. Ok that was a sad memory really.
Turtles are very in the moment is the thing about turtles.
charles
so by his own admissions his primary qualification for being president is that he’s running for president?
Oh, how I would love to get hold of that audio clip!!!
Charles-
The shame of it is that not only did he make this claim, but several members of the media picked it up and ran with it, claiming that the last eighteen months of campaigning has seasoned him for the office. I equate the comparison to having a free hand to write a resume, getting hired, and then having to perform at a job. My oldest son actually tried this with IBM back in the 80’s was hired and lasted three days on the job when he locked every executive in the Southwest out of their system for a day, not on purpose, but because he was trying to impress with his skill. He survived the experience, not sure our country would survive Obama.
Rick
I heard of clip of O earlier today in front of a crowd that was just tepidly applauding him. He was “uhm…and…you know” stammering all over the place.
This guy is rattled.
The Republicans need to watch their back. Obama is out of machine politics in Chicago. I’d be watching voting booths real close.
Now cable news is alive with the story that Elizabeth Hasselbeck of “The View” “outed” the fact that Michelle Obama came on the show with a negociated list of topics that would not be touched, while Ms. McCain came on with not such list.
“… but this is standard for celebs” they say … but apparently not for political figures.
Jeff,
I don’t mind the trolls too much. I mean where else can you go and see the left exposed and disected so thoroughly. That plus ebonics refreshers priceless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiGwgXKl7kQ
happyfeet@6:39
Wasn’t it Leviticus?
—–
Jeff, I mostly lurk here. Do whatever makes YOU the most comfortable. You are caught on the classic horns of a dilemma: you don’t like banning anyone, but you don’t losing other posters (with more valuable points of view), either. Wouldn’t it be nice if the software would allow you to let someone post, say, three times and them lock them out of the threat. Something like that would break off one of the horns.
I ignore nishi & thor, but since I don’t post I’m not a target for either of them, so I don’t have a dog in this fight.
Darleen-
I don’t think your’e ever out of Chicago machine politics once your’e in. I bet the Daley’s and Stroger’s have a full time staff to keep up with where the bodies are buried. As far as election watch, you remember after the 2000 election the Dems were on a rant about doing away with the Electoral College, especially Hillary. Heard much about that lately? If you can control the elections in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan where the elements of machine politics and voter fraud have been most prevalent, you can alter the dynamic of any Presidential election.
Roy-
“I ignore nishi & thor, but since I don’t post I’m not a target for either of them, so I don’t have a dog in this fight.”
Well you do now. I understand Freudian bullshit, and when you said threat instead of thread I totally related.
If this election is close, the Dems will try to steal it. There are enough fringies still obsessed with Gore/Bush and they’ll be thugging the polling places,slashing tires on buses and other crap.
I shudder.
Darleen-
Shudder? I’m going to Vegas the weekend before the election and staying there until the riots are over. I will however, place a small wager on McCain/Palin to pay for the trip.
“I may not be able to define
twaddletwattletwatwafflecow patties, but I can recognize it when I see it.â€ÂAre we done yet?
Diana-
You talking to me? I can define twaddle, twattle, twatwaffle and cow patties and don’t need Google. “Are we done yet?” Hardly, got me a fresh case of Budweiser and a sinus infection, a perfect storm for argumentativeness.
Sure.
At 226:
Are you saying that all Charlie Manson had to do to take over for whitey was wait until this November?
No. I was talkimg to Sean M.. You weren’t paying attention.
That’s why I said At 226: Which meant the question was directed at Rick Smith.
Sorry about the confusion.
sarah palin = the queen of sparta
Whew!
RoA-
Racist. How do you know that I don’t think the riots will be led by the hedge fund managers and the owners of small businesses, not to speak of the evil, evil sombitches in the oil bizness? As far as Charlie Manson. It’s a shame he couldn’t keep up a modicum of sanity long enough for Bugliosi to milk his experience long enough to keep from going batshit crazy.
Sean M. and Diana-
“Are we done yet?” I cannot possibly tell you how long it has been since I heard that! Love it. Maybe the first time I leave Jeff’s site before I run out of beer.
Oh man, I just have too many things to lead into with that Rick. My head is truly spinning. I wonder what Charlie thinks of Obama? Hell, I wonder if Oprah would interview Charlie – you know, to get the lowdown when its still high.
I think he’s talking about this Anderson Cooper was the interviewer… probably with more digging one could come up with a clip.
here ya go. complete with “Wasilly” mispronunciation.
First they come for the bushy-tailed and rambunctious. Then, leapfrogging and somersaulting, they’ll work the back alleys for hippy chicks who they think might hike their skirts up in candle-lit gin houses. So I’m channeling John O’Hara; they’re channeling loose women who show off the tops of their knockers… and smoke Russian cigarettes.
The pub is a nasty place, even the bats of hell get told to sit down. People go there and never come back. Pimps, bookies, nylon stocking salesman, Gambinos, fish cutters, industrial adhesive hustlers, they all think they own the passepartout to the place, that is until nishi and thor start swinging coal shovels.
Grenades and gunpowder! Pick your rub. Those two are sandpaper on the balls. Gods of terror! Like taking a rigging needle in the kisser! Their words! Like shitting metal turds!
The only thing that might stop the two smirking boneheads, those smug jerks, is a rain of jeers. Rat pellets in their pesto sauce! Fireworks jammed into nishi’s muff and cat piss tossed in thor’s eyes! No more splitting zeroes with those two.
They aren’t making America happy! They ain’t even trying to peddle the narrative.
Looks like Iowahawk already beat me to the punch:
Bernadine D., law professor / terrorist bomber, Evanston, IL
“Too bad Susan Atkins isn’t around to teach these Palins some good old-fashioned Manson Family values. Dig it! First they killed those pigs and then they put a fork in their bellies. Wild!”
Wasilly! Perfect!
I’m not sure I get the reference, but I’m glad to help nonetheless. I’m all about the helping.
[…] Rasmussen, (h/t Jeff G) Sarah Palin has a 58% Favorable rating, up from 52% Favorable before her Tuesday night speech. […]
happy, Cordwainer Smith had a story about an almost immortal turtle girl.
Her name was T’Ruth.
Which works on so many levels.
Alaska Wildlife Alliance
Right. Like the bears need any help eating humans and seals.
The One, the Messiah, the Changer, the new face and heart of the Democratic Party and the leftists of the world is whining about the treatment he is receiving at the hands of a woman who two years ago was the Mayor of a town of 9,000 in Alaska.
I take back what I said about Putin destroying Obama. Putin wouldn’t bother, he would send one of his secretaries to do the job.
we just arent going to have a twodigit creationist dwarf in a bun for president.
ever.
sry
wait for the debates and the ritual shaking of the hands,
Watch how I do this …
it’s all about learning restraint.
We need a pussy in the White House is what we need.
Hey you wad of fuck, Obama is a creationist also.
Victor, see my 250.
Im curious….how will Team McCain avoid lookin like Team Dwarf in the debates?
Im curious….how will Team McCain avoid lookin like Team Dwarf in the debates?
Actually, it is a Dwarf and an Undead.
How will Obama overcome McCain’s will of the forsaken is the bigger question, I think.
Jeff, trust me, I have no desire to own your ass; besides, your wife would turn me into compost for trespassing on her preserve.
Now, owning the ‘dillo’s ass….. send me a price quote and we’ll talk. It will have to include shipping in an escape-proof cage… maybe with a couple of Russian hookers and a case of Rumpleminze Peppermint Schnapps so he doesn’t get bored… oh, yessss!
if you had read Reihan’s book, you would see this for what it is.
Palin is just more pandering to the Sam’s Club republicans, the forty percenters.
In the end it will boil down to culture war partisanship.
But….if the visuals actually become obvious…i have to think a 5-foot tall PTA mom that is one 72yrold heartbeat away from the presidency is just not going to be palatable to a segment of the American public.
Appearance is all, and 5 feet simply isnt presendiatial.
Small-town residents boo media with McCain
http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/trail-times/2008/Sep/05/small-town-residents-boo-media-mccain/
lol, Moes!
unfortunately we are playin Warhammer online not Warcraft. ;)
Obama is one of the High Elves.
Now, McCain is a Lizardman and Palin obviously a twoheaded dwarf ogre hunter.
The bun is camoflage for the second head.
oh Jeff, im sorry.
i dont mean to lose u bidness.
i dont need to post anywhere anymore, really.
i know the score, im not gonna change anything.
i miss the old days when Allah and Ardolino usta hang here, is all.
best witches, good journey,
kate
To be more accurate shouldn’ your headline read, “Palin more popular than God”? With apologies to John Lennon.
Re:
dicentra at #109
Thanks for the link to the Whittle piece.
Lately I rarely go to NRO so I’d have missed it.
As for thor and nishi, they are fine by me. I want to see what they say after the election no matter which way it goes.
Didn’t anyone ever do usenet back in the day. Trolls, abuse, shheese, everything is so polite nowadays.
me too, will miss
Last time I heard “Are we done yet?” was last night with the missus … ahem … well, movin’ right along ….
Nishi, you were misinformed. On odds, Palin is taller than you. Sans bun and heels, she’s taller than average, at 5′ 6 and a half inches.
So I suppose you could be correct about the no-dwarf rule, although it isn’t really any protection against Palin.
james madison was 5’4″
John Adams was also no beanstalk.
Benjamin Harrison and Martin Van Buren weren’t very tall for males either, maybe five foot six or so.
Palin, on the other hand, is a taller than average woman. But shorter than me.
So I accept your nomination, Nishi.
FDR was like what? 4′ while in the wheelchair. He beat the Nazi’s is the way I remember it.
Also, if you are ever, like being attacked by a bear or something, then having Palin around just might be in your best interest.
Nishi: “Appearance is all…”
Sure… just as the Eloi…
*mutters threats at keyboard…*
S/b “Just ask the Eloi…”
I’m not sure how “Sally Ballerina” is going to stack up against “Sarah Barracuda”, though.
thor and nishi are already scrollover material for me. I rarely bother responding to their filth.
About all they’re good for now is showing the true face of the “progressive” left.
Re: Ignoring trolls, a great feature would be for their material to appear in either a different color, or ‘invisible’. I have no idea if the blogging system is smart enough to accommodate CSS markup like this and someone would have to maintain tthe tables of idiot nicknames and/or IPs.
So, y’know, we love her now that Sarah Palin, intensely in many cases, but she will hurt us one day, oh for sure, she’ll yank our hearts out and stomp on them and though that day may be far off, still it will come. She’s a pol, after all.
But we who love her
can’tneedn’t try to help ourselves down so much as enjoy our brief dream. It feels good to love a pol for a change, especially for the first time.Damn that bastard McCain for getting us into this mess.
Sarah will be McCain’s vice president, and it will painful sometimes. But she will say hey guys let’s drill our energies what are in the ground here and here and here. That’s never not nothing.
1) Don’t sweat the small shit
2) It’s all small shit
unfortunately we are playin Warhammer online not Warcraft. ;)
Nope. WoW is still the big one. Palin is Dwarf Hunter, McCain is Undead Palladin (because I say so, that’s why!) Biden is a Murloc, haven’t figured Obama out yet, probably a Mage with that mad cc he has.
You mean WoW doesn’t have ‘Community Organizers’?
FoxNews is doing a profile of Gov. Palin at 8pm tonight.
No mystery there. She has a small nose and protruding tits.
Trolls don’t bother me atoll. Once identified, they’re automatically on vanish.
Skippity skippity la la la.
Makes the comments so much faster to read through. I recommend it.
One day I took not of my sister arguing with my mother. Sis would attack and Mother would respond. While Mother was responding, Sis was formulating her next attack. Frontal attack. Side attack. Rear attack. Side attack, etc. Utterly unrelated attacks. I sat there amazed, thinking, “females argue irrationally.” Yes, I was sexist even then. But I learned something valuable, something that was put to use quite immediately. My next argument with my sister was in her form. To my delight, by not responding directly to anything she said, it took only a few unrelated and irrational attacks to bring her to tears. I cheered my success.
That is all.
Hmm, guess now nobody has to feel guilty about not reading your posts, troll.