Deserving to be in the spotlight this month is the University of Cincinnati which has announced a policy that allows free speech in one designated campus area only.Free speech is permissible in the specified area but only after being authorized and scheduled by the Campus Scheduling Office.
Those individuals failing to comply with the policy are threatened with criminal trespassing charges.
(h/t Jawa Report)
Comment by Dan Collins on 12/18 @ 9:08 am #
They have had some good football teams in recent years, IIRC, but it’s time to change the name to the Care Bearcats.
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/18 @ 9:42 am #
Well I find this to be a refreshing bit of intellectual honesty on behalf of the university administration…
I mean, most colleges long ago stopped being places of, you know, learning and the free exchange of ideas and outlooks…
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 9:46 am #
I agree Bob at least they are being honest. Cudos to them.
Comment by Sdferr on 12/18 @ 9:47 am #
Clicking through to the F.I.R.E. site/article reveals a dateline on this story Dec. 5, 2007. So a year has passed since the institution of this little bit of crazy and thus, some follow up on its effects (or lack thereof, such as ignorage entire may have produced) would be warranted, I think.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 12/18 @ 10:12 am #
Larry Flynt, call your office…you’re needed back in Cincinnati right away…
Comment by daleyrocks on 12/18 @ 10:23 am #
WKRP reports angry muslim student demonstration over depiction of muslims as angry.
Comment by SarahW on 12/18 @ 10:31 am #
Another free speech face-palm moment.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 12/18 @ 10:39 am #
Only a bureaucrat could conceive of something so obviously obtuse and present it with a straight face.
“You have free speech – but only in the designated area and only when authorized.”
“But how are we supposed…”
“Silence! You are not on the schedule and you are not in the zone! Go sign up, and no talking when signing up because you are not in the zone nor have you received your free speech ration card! Silence!”
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 10:40 am #
I blame liberals.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 10:42 am #
One part of the story that was missing is that before you enter the “Circle of Free Speech”, you have to put an explosive collar on. The Dean of Liberal Arts holds the button.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 10:44 am #
It is the Bearcats folks. This should come as no suprise. Their men’s basketball program has one of the highest felon to player ratios in the country, and their degree to player ratio is one of the lowest.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 10:47 am #
Have you forgotten the “free speech areas” Bush used during his appearances? Short memories in the outrageosphere.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 10:47 am #
But they’ve really had some courageous uniforms, showing how different views can be expressed garmently.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 10:49 am #
Wow. assclown mentions Bush. Unexpectedly creative and brilliant.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 10:51 am #
yes I have. cite please?
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 10:53 am #
…or in a more Obamish vein, “Hold on there assclown. That’s not a subject that I want to talk about and I don’t want you to waste your comment. Please, only comment on what Obama deems commentable.”
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 10:53 am #
Perhaps Mr Ass is thinking of those free speech zones at the DNC convention?
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 10:54 am #
google is your friend. And as for mentioning Bush – I thought noting hypocrisy was all the rage around these parts. Huh. “Rage”.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 10:54 am #
STFU, butt dart.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 10:55 am #
Obama’s Free Speech Area: Good things about Obama
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 10:56 am #
ah, another PHIL GRAHAM moment brought to us by that one.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 10:56 am #
And here I thought the pool on how many quarts of jism assclown eats a day was all the rage.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 10:56 am #
Carin – You mean the ones surrounded by wire fences and concertina wire?
Assclown gets madd propz for at least being honest in its choice of a moniker.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 10:58 am #
PHIL GRAHAM, I tell you. PHIL FUCKIN GRAHAM.
Comment by irongrampa on 12/18 @ 10:58 am #
OTOH, stuff like this is probably going to mean the demise of parody. It provides an insurmountable task, to parody such crap.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 10:59 am #
more of an aquaintance really. It couldn’t tell me what Phil Graham had to do with the economy for one.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 10:59 am #
Hey, I guess hypocrisy is ok if you are a faux Liberal-killer. When are you guys going to move to your Randian paradise where you survive merely on your wits and weapons without that commie government’s protection? Seriously, get the fuck out of my country. We’re tired of you.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:01 am #
maggie, I have a google assignment for you. Look up “perseverate”.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:01 am #
aw, TOPIC CHANGE already?
Hey! is that a rabbit over there?
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 11:02 am #
In which of the 57 states to you reside assclown? Jizzassippi?
good one.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:02 am #
here’s an assignment for you. provide citations for your crap.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 11:04 am #
Seriously, get the fuck out of my country.
Did I miss something? I thought we were the United States of America, not the United States of Assclowns.
It never takes long for a Leftist to let their inner fascist out.
PHIL FUCKIN GRAHAM RUINED THE ECONOMY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!eleventy
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:04 am #
I can’t hold your hand on the internets, maggie. It would be unseemly.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:05 am #
you can’t provide support for your “arguments” you mean. dumbassclown. just reminding you of that.
Comment by Pablo on 12/18 @ 11:05 am #
Sory, assclown. We were here first. In fact we built this place, and you;’re soiling it. There are paradises for your sort all set up and ready to go. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:05 am #
sigh. I tried.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 11:05 am #
assclown is timmy isn’t he. I notice some similarities in the writing style.
and the jizz breath.
Comment by Pablo on 12/18 @ 11:06 am #
Nor can I provide citations for my arguments. That would make me look like an assclown.
I, for one, fail to see the downside.
Comment by daleyrocks on 12/18 @ 11:06 am #
Yup clown ass, I remember in 1996, the Secret Service confiscating anti-Clinton signs in Chicago. Tolerance, it’s what’s for breakfast.
Comment by kelly on 12/18 @ 11:07 am #
“We’re tired of you.”
Who’s this “we”? You and your pocket pal?
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:07 am #
BWAH HA HA HA Haaaaa
Comment by BJTexs on 12/18 @ 11:07 am #
Well I’m not moving out of the country until Robert Redford moves to Ireland… or was it Switzerland … or was that Soros … dam, it’s tough to keep up with expatriates.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/18 @ 11:08 am #
The DNC was notorious for its pioneering work in the area of First Amendment zones. Short memory, indeed.
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 11:09 am #
Honestly, I don’t see why we should have to move. Didn’t they all promise to migrate to Canada back in 04? What ever happened to that marvelous plan?
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:09 am #
Hey Pablo – you especially need to get the fuck out. You and your mindless, hateful kind have nothing in common with those who built this country. Sorry, had to be said.
Comment by kelly on 12/18 @ 11:09 am #
“sigh. I tried.”
Tried what, exactly, other than proving you’re a drooling cretin with a persecution complex?
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 11:09 am #
sigh. I tried.
Bull fucking shit. You did not try. You lied.
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 11:10 am #
Registration Only free speech?
See like you wankers were all for that yesterday.
I’m quite sure of it.
Now you’re against it?
Point/laugh.
Comment by daleyrocks on 12/18 @ 11:10 am #
“I can’t hold your hand on the internets, maggie.”
Assclown, was that your dicl I just sliced off that was coming through my monitor. Seriously dude, you should have gotten that thing treated before it shriveled up and died. Those sores were terrible. It scared my dog.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 11:10 am #
Assclown is having fun letting his inner fascist out to play.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:10 am #
cause you would know mindless and hateful.
*snort*
Comment by daleyrocks on 12/18 @ 11:11 am #
dick not dicl
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 11:11 am #
Hey Pablo – you especially need to get the fuck out. You and your mindless, hateful kind have nothing in common with those who built this country. Sorry, had to be said.
Mr. Ass, you need to see if you can get any and all tuition money that may have been paid on your behave. YOU WAS ROBBED.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:12 am #
I think the free speech areas suck, no matter who uses them. Unlike you, I have principles that go beyond “everything my perceived enemy does is evil or trickery.”
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 11:12 am #
And now it is joined by alphie/sniffles/parsnip.
Hilarity ensues.
Again, the whole idea of what Freedom of Speech is actually about is lost on these assbandits.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 11:12 am #
And now it is joined by alphie/sniffles/parsnip.
Hilarity ensues.
Again, the whole idea of what Freedom of Speech is actually about is lost on these assbandits.
Comment by BJTexs on 12/18 @ 11:12 am #
Assclown mindlessly and hatefully asks the mindless and hateful to GET THE F*CK OUT!!!
up is down, black is white, assclown is a deep thinker
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 11:13 am #
Look, Root veggie, the registration is to do away with moniker stealing.
How would you like it if I posted asinine things under YOUR name?
Of course, thats assuming anyone would be able to notice the difference.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:14 am #
“persecution complex”
That’s pretty funny coming from a cesspool that has to wallow in outrage at every action of Muslims or liberals. It’s all about you, isn’t it children?
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 11:15 am #
Assclown has principles. Principles, I tell you. He knows that PHIL FUCKIN GRAHAM ruined the economy. He knows shit that you do not. And, he controls who gets to stay in the US of Assclowns.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 11:15 am #
Your principles have an expiration of less than fifteen minutes. Funny that.
Comment by daleyrocks on 12/18 @ 11:15 am #
“Of course, thats assuming anyone would be able to notice the difference.”
Of course we would, nobody else can be that retarded.
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 11:15 am #
The funny thing is that there was a time when liberals would have gotten upset about a thing like this.
What say you two? You ok with this?
Comment by BJTexs on 12/18 @ 11:15 am #
Please Carin, you are talking to someone who thinks the military is “make work.” you will be contaminated and dulled by the proximity.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 11:16 am #
Unlike you, I have principles that go beyond “everything my perceived enemy does is evil or trickery.â€Â
Bravo. Then you agree that the invasion of Iraq was the correct response to the imminent threat posed by Hussein. An imminent threat that was verbalized by Clinton, Clinton, Edwards, France et al?
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 11:16 am #
How would you like it if I posted asinine things under YOUR name?
How would anyone tell the difference?
It’s all about you, isn’t it children?
Nope. We are all about the assclowns.
Comment by Sdferr on 12/18 @ 11:17 am #
Hijacked again I see. Lucy has nothing on these trolls, they’re as predictable as the sun rising in the east. And boring beyond belief.
Comment by daleyrocks on 12/18 @ 11:17 am #
I seethe, therefore I am ASSCLOWN!!!!!111!!eleventy!!!
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 11:18 am #
And the U of C’s “Free Speech Zones” are to prevent protests from disrupting the learning process going on in the classrooms, Carin.
I’m beginning to think the lack of irony in wingnuts is genetic.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:19 am #
the “!!!!eleventy” bit stopped being funny in 2005.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:20 am #
Hey parsnip how are those enlistment documents coming up? I hope you didn’t have to get a medical waiver if you need help filling out the paperwork let me know. I would hate for you to have it on your conscience that you sent OTHER people’s children off to Obama’s war and not you or your own.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 11:21 am #
Hey parsnip. Would you go along with calling the U C zones “Authorized Speech Zones”?
seeing as that’s the point of the post.
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/18 @ 11:22 am #
Wasn’t the aptly named assclown, the uncite-able, wringing his hands about Rage! earlier up this thread?
Didn’t his dark lord Obama instruct his disciples to be magnanimous in victory, and to reach across the aisle in a gesture of singular solidarity and bonhomie?
I’d cite something here, but that seems so, you know, passe…
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:22 am #
I think the ease with which these comments can be derailed really speaks to the reflexive hatred found here. Someone new saying something we done like? ATTACK! More rational comment boards simply ignore trolls but here? Impossible. Gotta get that rage out! I think it is due to feelings of inferiority leading to a supersized chip on your shoulder.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:22 am #
but I thought diversity of opinions was important to learning.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 11:23 am #
How many quarts are you up to assclown. I stand to win 3 bucks.
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/18 @ 11:24 am #
“assclown lied; people cried…”
With laughter, that is, at his pathetic sense of absolute moral authority and metaphysical certitude…
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 11:24 am #
but I thought diversity of opinions was important to learning
Again, coming from wingnut, this is Comedy Gold.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 11:25 am #
We are far superior to you assclown. And we are tired of you. Now get the fuck out!
Knee jerk?
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:25 am #
If your memories are so fucking bad that you can’t remember Bush’s free speech zones, I can’t help you. I can only tell you to google it. Any more and I’ll charge.
As for bonhomie? I’d rather observe you from a distance. Like say, you in a South American commune fighting each other for scraps of food (Randian paradise! The true capitalists will rise to the top!) and me in the US enjoying the protection and freedom of a modern government.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 11:25 am #
Name one that doesn’t require registration!
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:25 am #
How do you take seriously the comments of someone who calls himself “assclown”? I mean didn’t that insult start on WWF?
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:25 am #
glad you liked it, parsnip. that was kinda the idea.
BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!!!
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 11:26 am #
really speaks to the reflexive hatred found here.
Yes, you should discuss that with your therapist. Or up your dosage.
Carin – Diversity does NOT include diversity of thought in the Leftist world.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:27 am #
al, I’m sure you believe you are superior to ALL people who have the pleasure to not be you. That does not make it so, no matter what your Mommie told you.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 11:27 am #
and me in the US enjoying the protection and freedom
You sound like a commercial for Depends.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:28 am #
riiiiight. you’ve still got nothing.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 11:29 am #
assclown is a totalitarian fascist.
4 quarts and counting, al. And it shows no signs of slowing down.
alphie/sniffles/parsnip really does have emotional issues.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 11:29 am #
You were bowing your head when you typed my name, I trust.
Comment by Pablo on 12/18 @ 11:29 am #
That’s nice, assclown. Why don’t you move to Russia anyway? And take thor with you. He’ll like that.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:31 am #
Assclown only came here to spew his hatred for everyone here, then he says everyone here is the ones doing the hate. Kinda ironic.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/18 @ 11:32 am #
My #89 was directed at butt-pagliacci, btw
Comment by Pablo on 12/18 @ 11:32 am #
This seems like a good time for some Sam Adams. No, not that one, this one:
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:32 am #
maggie, you stupid cow, several others above have noted the DNC and Clinton free speech zones. They have already ceded that Bush used free speech zones and have now moved onto the “yeah, but your guy did it too!” phase of idiotic internet argumentation. Try too keep up, dear.
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/18 @ 11:33 am #
He’s confused about where he is Pink. He referenced the outrage-o-sphere in an earlier comment…
But that’s at his usual digs; the daily Kos…
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:33 am #
Shorter Asshat: I hate you all everyone in this room you disgusting Rethuglican wingnut extremists.You need to move out of this country now to a concentration camp because you are so full of hate. If you all didn’t hate so much you could join the rest of us in making this country a better place. You hateful bitches. Fuck you all!!!!
Comment by kelly on 12/18 @ 11:33 am #
Psst. Hey assclown, there’s a difference between mocking or sarcasm or facetiousness and…hate. Look them up. Shrieking little ninny.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:34 am #
ha ha, no. I’m perserwhatever that way. maybe they’re misremembering too.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:34 am #
Asshat are you just pissed that your mother is not going to pay for the next WWF pay-per-view?
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:35 am #
or I’m just trollin’ the troll and he bit. hard. PHIL GRAHAM IS MY MASTER RIGHT AFTER PAT BOONE!!!
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:35 am #
Hey anyone want to have a discussion about having registration on this site?
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 11:35 am #
I’m still waiting for the name of the “more rational” comment boards that ignore trolls without requiring registration, i.e., a means to ban trolls! Just one, Mr. Assclown!
Comment by Pablo on 12/18 @ 11:36 am #
Indeed, Mr. Pink. I think assclown needs a nice Thorazine regimen. And a one way ticket to Moscow.
Comment by Pablo on 12/18 @ 11:37 am #
Mr. Pink @ #96, that is. You bitches are quick!
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/18 @ 11:37 am #
No Kelly,
It’s a sad fact these days that any speech which contains rebuttal or disagreement with the left-wingers in this nation is subject to interpretive contortions to suss out nonexistent meanings, and then promptly branded as hate-speech…
That way they can declare the discussion/debate over and, hence, victory by ideological disqualification…
Revoltin’ developments indeed…
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:37 am #
maggie, try to be clear when typing your thoughts, ok?
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:39 am #
hee hee
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:39 am #
I “bit hard” by showing you to be a complete fool? That’s an interesting take.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:40 am #
Assclown I have done what you are doing now. It is more fun in a chat room though. Try BigNBeautiful on AOL. Go there and type some fat jokes knock yourself out. Come back here when playing with your own feces doesn’t amuse you anymore.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:41 am #
who’s the bigger fool? The fool or the one that “argues” with them?
but we’re all reactionary about trolls. knee jerk much?
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:44 am #
Nope. Not until you fucks leave my country. Or stop ruining it with your fringe, crackpot ideas.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:45 am #
thinking about though, you really haven’t shown me anything have you? except your hatred. : (
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:46 am #
Crackpot ideas? Hehe if you want crackpot ideas go here.
http://everything2.com/node/775035
Comment by kelly on 12/18 @ 11:46 am #
Well put, Bob. It’s clear thta PosteriorBonzo doesn’t have the mental chops to even know what he’s doing. Typical.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:46 am #
stop stalking me maggie. people are beginning to talk.
Comment by Pablo on 12/18 @ 11:47 am #
Maybe a nice locked room with padded walls would work. In St. Petersberg.
Comment by Eben on 12/18 @ 11:47 am #
““yeah, but your guy did it too!†phase of idiotic internet argumentation.”
You have to be a special kind of retard Mr. Ass. Have you forgotten so quickly that your very first response to this article was ‘yeah, but Bush did it too!’
I suppose it could be said in your favor that you are an expert in identifying ‘idiotic internet argumentation’ since you are such an expert practitioner of it.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:48 am #
Can anyone name me the country, city, or county where left wing ideas actually work for more than the amount of time it takes them to blow threw all the money? Please someone help me out here. Seems to me every country where left wing ideas are in the majority lags behind the US in every catagory. I mean according to this jackass Venezuala should be running rings around us by now.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:48 am #
that we are engaged in idiotic internet argumentation was never in question. what was your point, again?
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 11:48 am #
That link isn’t loading for me, anyone care to give a brief paraphrase of what I assume is UCin’s Derrida-esque attempt to redefine conservatism as hate speech?
Comment by kelly on 12/18 @ 11:49 am #
“Nope. Not until you fucks leave my country. Or stop ruining it with your fringe, crackpot ideas.”
Bitter little fascist.
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/18 @ 11:49 am #
Oh the horror of the Rage!
I’m actually surprised you’re still here…I mean, I thought you’d book your reservations with Timmy Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, and other members of the wanna-be-intelligensia, when they were moving to some workers paradise somewhere…
Just tell us which one of the 57 states yo live in and we’ll promise to give you a wide berth…
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:49 am #
Mr. Pink – and yet the bluest states and cities are the most prosperous, have the least amount of teen pregnancy, and have the least crime. Crazy how that works.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:49 am #
Not to mention Chicago.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 11:50 am #
Just one name, Mr. Assclown. I’ll even google it!
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 11:50 am #
I hate to be a dick – ha, ha – but a lot of State universities have a free speech area, and all it means is it’s a place to protest/speak anytime you want, actually I think your free speech has only a set amount of hours of freedom. They have a box and you get up there and stand on the box, ya see, and you speak during your allotment of a designated free speech allocation, meaning, yes, there’s someone there to keep the free speaking all organized, you can’t just have everyone free speechin’ at the same time, duuuh.
At my preferred institution of higher education, the free speech’n box-area is on the pathway between the food court, which includes at least half-a-dozen capitalist food enterprises such as Pizza Hut, Subway, Quiznos, China Express, etc.., and some the buildings which house some of the professors of Liberal Arts. You grab some nachos and a Coke and you take a seat, yep, nice circular area to sit, and listen to “they treated me like a dog, Mr. Wally” screeds and such. The big bang is that you don’t know what whoever is free speechin’ is going to free speech about, well, unless you check the list, so it’s sort’a like open mic night at the Improv. Many readings are made by those who like to write, at least it’s that way on my campus since the free speech box is about twenty paces from the Creative Writing Lab. Sometimes whoever is free speechin brings some friends with slogans on placards, “Save the Bushes,” stuff like that. Most often its just dudes and dudesses reading poems of songs of freedom.
Been there. Seen it. All evil. Mostly Libruls. Carry on.
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 11:50 am #
Mr. Ass – which crackpot, fringe ideas are you referring to?
Honestly, I’ve got nothing better to do for the next hour.
Comment by Sdferr on 12/18 @ 11:52 am #
Dash, try this link to F.I.R.E., which was embedded in the link Darleen provided. Again, let me point out the dateline is Dec. 5, 2007. This is an old story.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 11:53 am #
erm.. wikipedia (found via google) kinda says otherwise. maybe it’s not the friend you thought it was?
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:53 am #
I’m not going to do your homework for free, I’ve already noted this. Sry.
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 12/18 @ 11:53 am #
U of Michigan’s various attempts to restrict free speech have all been struck down. Campus liberals have had more success; they like to steal entire press runs of papers if they don’t like them.
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 11:53 am #
Mr. Pink – and yet the bluest states and cities are the most prosperous, have the least amount of teen pregnancy, and have the least crime. Crazy how that works.
LINK PLEASE!
Here, let me make a totally unsupported assertion.
The bluest cities are the most crime-riddled, broken cities in America.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:54 am #
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:49 am #
Mr. Pink – and yet the bluest states and cities are the most prosperous, have the least amount of teen pregnancy, and have the least crime. Crazy how that works.
Hahahhahahahahhahahahahahhaa. Hilarious. Yes I would love to live in such prosperous places free of teen pregnancy and with no crime such as Baltimore, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Cleveland, Detriot, and D.C. Yes those are places that we should all emulate. ahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhaha.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:54 am #
nice link… so can you tell me how this supports your contention?
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/18 @ 11:54 am #
assclown@123
OK skippy, you’re gonna need to provide a citation on that assertion, because it is one of the best Sorelian necessary lies I have heard today…
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 11:54 am #
THAT IS SOO COOL, Mr. Ass. I can just say whatever I want, and anytime you call me on it, I’m just gonna say you gotta do your own homework.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:55 am #
My contention is you live with your mother and beg her to pay for WWF every time they have a pay-per-view.
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 11:56 am #
I can’t believe you folks want Ass to do your homework for you. For shame.
Hey, did you know that Dem cities are the most corrupt? GOOGLE IT!
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:56 am #
The truth of my statement lies in the word “bluest”. Again, try to keep up.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:57 am #
Assclown if you want to prove my assertion wrong, that you are unemployed virgin who lives off his mother, then you need to provide me with a link. I am not going to do your homework for you.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 11:58 am #
Thanks Sdferr. Yea that’s a lot bizzare. Even more so than assperson telling us to go leave his country which you really see the roots of wannabe totalitarians leading the big fascist tuberosity underneath.
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 11:58 am #
Sweden.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:58 am #
hehehe
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 11:58 am #
The truth of your statement lies in your lies. And manipulating the connotation of blue = democrat. Which, is what it has meant for the last 8 years.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 11:59 am #
Ohhhhh he said bluest. That clears it up. See Sao Paulo.
https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=62452
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 12/18 @ 11:59 am #
Detroit has had exactly one Republican in city government in something like four decades. In that time, it has gone from a prosperous city of 2 million to a post-apocalyptic crime center of under 900,000. There’s your blue city.
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 12/18 @ 12:00 pm #
Malmo, a big city in Sweden, has large no-go areas where ambulances and police rarely tread because of Islamist attacks. Kinda like certain Parisian suburbs.
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 12:01 pm #
Regardless of whether or not Sweden is a success of liberal ideas is immaterial. The demographic differences between Sweden and the US make it a wholly incompatible comparison.
I would ask, can anyone point me to a US city where liberal policies have, over a long term, resulted in success.
Comment by kelly on 12/18 @ 12:02 pm #
Assclown is an encephalitic, scab-eating retard. Google it!
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 12/18 @ 12:03 pm #
Local law enforcement set up the free speech zones at the DNC and RNC. Blame the police.
As far as UC goes, that’s just straight up bullshit. Why don’t we ask Bill fucking Ayers what he would think of that. My guess is he would just blow something up. Probably not his class…wouldn’t want to disrupt real learning…maybe a physics lab or something. Physics, yeah, that’s it. Bunch of fucking warmongers.
If you think that anyone in this group supported Free Speech Zones…well, I really can’t help you.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 12:03 pm #
Nah, Mr. Pink, if this week has taught us anything, its that ‘instinct’ is the new standard of veracity. The modus vivendi is that we bring reasoned arguments with footnotes and facts to the table, and then they can go lament their encounter with the incorrigible Gradgrinds of the right whilst basking in the warm technicolor hue of their groupthink instinct.
Comment by kelly on 12/18 @ 12:05 pm #
Sweden: Where everyone is equally poor and miserable.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 12:07 pm #
“reasoned arguments” HAHAHAHAHA! Oh christ, that was funny. Now get the fuck out of my country you yokel.
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/18 @ 12:08 pm #
Hey thor,
With all due respect, while a functioning socialist economy, Sweden’s higher personal income brackets suffer a 60% tax rate…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_around_the_world
I know it’s wiki, for cryin’ out loud, but I was sure you’d trust it more than a conservative tax policy think-tank’s assessments
http://www.heritage.org/Index/country.cfm?id=Sweden
And, the relatively small population makes it easier to administer health and energy subsidies; something that would most likely be unwieldy and impractical here..
Kind of like the ethanol panacea and the countless citation of Brazil as proof it is practical; even though they use less than 1 percent of the volume of fuel we do daily…
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 12:08 pm #
I think someone yesterday said that thor was intelligent. I have yet to see any evidence of that. Cue the dolphins with cameras on their heads from that Zissou flick.
But for real though thor, Sweden has a total population half the size of our unemployed population, so yea there problems are microscopic compared to ours.
Comment by thor's sugar daddy on 12/18 @ 12:09 pm #
I’ll buy your ticket to Sweden, honey, and then set you up with a flat. Just email me your bank account info and I’ll wire the money right over. You’ll love it this time of year!
Comment by Sdferr on 12/18 @ 12:11 pm #
Fetus for me, but not for thee.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 12:11 pm #
Also they do not fund a military pretty much at all and are the home of several large international banks. That they still require a 60% income tax rate to dole out to their dependants is hilarious.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 12:12 pm #
You gotta hope that one day these kids will take LSD in making their hajj to the golden era of the sixties, see their ego disintegrate and witness the palimpsest of contradictions around which they are built. For the children.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 12:13 pm #
I have yet to hear these two name one place where their ideas are prominent that is succesful.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 12:16 pm #
Dash I would say instinct is all they are operating on anymore. Their instinct tell them Bush is an egomanical madman who is both too stupid to tie his shoes but yet so diabolical that he can perpertrate a global conspiracy to invade Iraq and commit 9-11. Their instict tells them George Bush is like a bizarro version of Forrest Gump committing evil everywhere he goes.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 12:16 pm #
Not until you fucks leave my country.
Back to the whole United States of Assclowns again?
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 12:17 pm #
Sweden does make a pretty looking plane, though with a plethora of American parts.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 12:21 pm #
Yeah fuck democracy, everyone that disagrees with me should just leave the country. You hateful bastards you.
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 12:21 pm #
I’ve been to Europe. Much like here, some things work well and others not so well. You can frame an argument with selected examples either positive or negative. America is a socialist country and only slightly less so than the healthy countries you’d cite as evil failures.
Take the flag pin off. There’s no easy panacea to all problems however the system of funding social services is organized. The only agreement you and I will come to is yes, it is easier to change structures in countries such as Denmark, Finland and even Japan than America. I realize that.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 12:23 pm #
“America is a socialist country”
Circa 2008.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 12:23 pm #
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 11:49 am #
Mr. Pink – and yet the bluest states and cities are the most prosperous, have the least amount of teen pregnancy, and have the least crime. Crazy how that works.
This is bone-jarring. Unsettling. Someone needs to call the local mental health facility and let them know the village idiot got loose.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 12:25 pm #
Mr. Pink – so 8 years of Bushrule and we didn’t get our Randian paradise? Say it aint so.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 12:26 pm #
JD someone is teaching them this level of stupidity. Someone that is uninformed about politics could not be this stupid. Someone just “informed” him the wrong way.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 12:26 pm #
Doesn’t really sound tolerant or principle-y, does it?
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 12:27 pm #
JD – the magnificent irony is I have came out and agreed I am trolling you morons. Yet the kneejerk hatred just spills out of you anyway. It is stupendous to observe. It’s almost as if your hatred has such a hold on you that you are a slave to its whims. HATE!
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 12:28 pm #
it’s just that you’re scum, Mossberg.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 12:28 pm #
Bushrule? WTF is that? The president ain’t “ruling” sh!t do you have any idea of how our government functions? By the way you still haven’t named a place that is suceeding using leftist ideas. At least thor tried.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 12:28 pm #
Oh, and by stoking your hatred and reactions, I have a unique power. The power to stir knuckleheaded fuckwits into lashing out in blind rage. Like some kind of superhero!
Comment by Roland THTG on 12/18 @ 12:29 pm #
Asswipe,
It’s not your country.
Google it.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 12:29 pm #
BWAH HA HA HA HAAAAAAaaaa. that’s a mirror, silly.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 12:29 pm #
Mr. Pink – and yet you cower in fear at our coming commie springtime thanks to Obama. Which is it, jackass?
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 12:30 pm #
Bush is a free-market man. To save the free market he had to go against his free market principles, so he says.
And you wonder why persons like me, who once voted for Bush (much to the chagrin of the Darleens – you leftist scum your mother’s a slut your father sucks dick!!!11!! if you vote for Obama) have turned against idiot Bush?
The redumbicans don’t even make sense anymore.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 12:31 pm #
Roland – it sure as shit ain’t yours, asshole. Pry the flag magnet off your Hummer and join the fight, comrade!
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 12:31 pm #
so much projection, so little time…. When is the movie?
Comment by Roland THTG on 12/18 @ 12:31 pm #
I have a unique power
Stupid ain’t unique, sparky. And you couldn’t power a fruit fly.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 12:31 pm #
When did I say I was cowering in fear? WTF are you talking about?
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 12:32 pm #
It’s Barack Obama’s, maybe?
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 12:33 pm #
“The Rage Inducer”? “Trollrage”? I dunno, help me out, jerkoffs.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 12:33 pm #
You are still a totalitarian fascist, no matter how you choose to describe it, assface. The hate, it just oozes out of you. I bet you are one of those people that is intolerant of intolerance, aren’t you?
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 12:34 pm #
what rage?
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 12:34 pm #
What kinda loser would cower in fear if the politician he wanted to win lost? Oh wait people like you asshat. I care more about my freakin naval lint and the Redskins sucking up a storm this year.
Comment by Pablo on 12/18 @ 12:34 pm #
You’re too stupid to hate, assclown. You’re far more amusing than rage inducing.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 12:35 pm #
JD – You don’t know me, so please stop trying to assign motives that don’t exist.
Oh, who am I kidding. You nailed it. I hate you with a passion. Please leave America and never come back. Take your slackjawed family with you. We’re tired of paying for them.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 12:35 pm #
Yes, thor’s attempt at rational debate is laudable. The ascension of the bailout model and retro depression-era thinking are certainly socialist in nature, although the European comparison is superficial in a lot of ways. European socialism is much more entrenched than American socialism, i.e. free tutition to university, labor laws whose intent in the employer-employee relationship is to empower the latter to the detriment of the former, larger unsustainable entitlement programs, cf. Sweden, and wholesale demographic malaise. I was in the Czech Republic with a smattering of students from across the country, and more than an insignificant proportion of us began to entertain conservative values after we took the metro out to the old Communist housing projects.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 12:36 pm #
even Phil Graham says so.
Comment by Pablo on 12/18 @ 12:37 pm #
See? Rage is mostly for the stupid, due to lack of intellectual options. assclown, indeed.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 12:37 pm #
It will be short lived though Dash. These people rather be hated by us than respected or liked. They view us as evil hatemongers so what would that say about them if we liked em? Hell they won’t get their DailyKos merit badge that way.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 12:38 pm #
Yea, you’re certainly right. Best to ignore asspeople. I’m sure the notion of talking about socialism gives them a stiffy.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 12:38 pm #
I’ll note that many of you regulards post in the wee hours of the morning. A time when most red-blooded Americans are resting for the coming day’s hard work. People like me. Why are you posting on pw.com? No job? On the dole? Living with mommy? Wife or husband taking care of the bills? Parasites, every last one.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 12:39 pm #
no need to repeat yourself. or is “yokel” that different a term. they usually go together, ya know.
Comment by Roland THTG on 12/18 @ 12:40 pm #
I was in the Czech Republic with a smattering of students from across the country, and more than an insignificant proportion of us began to entertain conservative values after we took the metro out to the old Communist housing projects.
Just take a trip between East and West Berlin.
Makes your jaw drop.
“What the fuck were they thinkin?”, was about the best I could describe it.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 12/18 @ 12:40 pm #
Who is this Phil Graham? Is that by chance supposed to be Phil Gramm? He has been out of the senate since 2002. How could he still be screwing up the economy when Chris Dodd was there to oversee it?
Comment by Sdferr on 12/18 @ 12:40 pm #
Fitna not fit for screening at the European Parliament. Too incite-y. Now that’s how free speech is done in proper Zeropean fashion.
Comment by Pablo on 12/18 @ 12:40 pm #
You’ve been posting here for the last 2 hours. Where’s the hard work, bitch?
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/18 @ 12:40 pm #
Nah I live off your mommies dole. She works 14th and K for me.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 12:42 pm #
I’d be willing to entertain their fantasies of a green revolution if they’d be willing to compromise an immediate future where we make an effort to get the ~$11.5 trillion locked up in offshore oil and natural gas, so we could have a reasonably strong economy while transitioning away from subsidizing mullaocracies and the wet dreams of UAE sheiks.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 12:43 pm #
Precisely Roland.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 12:43 pm #
we’ll never know, MikeyNTH, because assclown will not be doing homework. BTW, I think that may be a “tell” of some sort. always mentioning the homework. hmmmmmm.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 12:43 pm #
Pablo, hypocrisy is an outmodded concept. Or so I’ve come to find WRT free speech zones. It also applies to trolls.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 12/18 @ 12:43 pm #
You know what would be fun? Selling free speech ration cards. Sort of like carbon credits.
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 12:44 pm #
What is it with you and Phil Graham? Try googling, I’m not interested in your wet dreams.
Comment by Roland THTG on 12/18 @ 12:46 pm #
Mikey, you would do better selling Screeching-Moonbat-Dumbass credits.
Asswipe would’ve used his allotment up already.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 12:48 pm #
Why are you posting on pw.com?
I did ask you about that “more rational comment board” that ignores trolls, but you’re yet to provide a name. Just one that doesn’t require registration.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/18 @ 12:49 pm #
Phil Graham has been outmodded.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 12:49 pm #
you brought him up first. put up or shut up.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/18 @ 12:50 pm #
Didn’t Phil Graham balance the mile-high balloon fence budget?
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 12:52 pm #
JD – the magnificent irony is I have came out and agreed I am trolling you morons. Yet the kneejerk hatred just spills out of you anyway. It is stupendous to observe. It’s almost as if your hatred has such a hold on you that you are a slave to its whims. HATE!
The only thing we hate here is stupidity.
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 12:53 pm #
Why, thank you for the notation of my superior civility. Just a question, good Sir, have you seen the housing projects in America? Your comparing apples to apples thus I’m certain you have.
Were there any other properties in the Czech Republic that caught your eye besides the Soviet era housing projects? A few edifices, or maybe some quaint worthless statues or gargoyles or anything of the like?
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 12:54 pm #
Carin! Re-attach your leg and quit beating yourself in the head!
Comment by Big D on 12/18 @ 12:55 pm #
Now see, this is why we can’t have nice things!
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 12:56 pm #
Case in point. How many friends does thor have here?
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 12:58 pm #
Oh, who am I kidding. You nailed it. I hate you with a passion. Please leave America and never come back. Take your slackjawed family with you. We’re tired of paying for them.
assface – You really are a sad pathetic small individual, aren’t you? You are enjoying this fascist thing a little to much though.
What is it with you and Phil Graham? Try googling …
You do not even pay attention to yourself, do you?
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 12:59 pm #
Ahh, thor, now ask yourself where those nasty ghettos and project housing came from, which one may argue in good faith destroyed what were once quaint brownstone neighborhoods with strong familial inclinations.
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 12:59 pm #
In a darkened bathroom stall Phil Gramm could be easily confused for Larry Craig, or 50-or-so other Republican lawmakers.
Comment by Pablo on 12/18 @ 12:59 pm #
I noticed the ground effects and the fuzzy dice. Pretty cool stuff.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 1:01 pm #
damn you! too much stalking I guess, I’m starting to think like you.
Comment by Pablo on 12/18 @ 1:03 pm #
Oh, wait. That was Lou. My bad.
Comment by Roland THTG on 12/18 @ 1:04 pm #
Were there any other properties in the Czech Republic that caught your eye besides the Soviet era housing projects?
I was in Varnsdorf in 2001. We stayed in the bestest hotel in town. It was wretched.
And the factory with machine gun toting guards, razorwire, and bad dogs was a nice touch, also. They do have excellent beer, however.
I don’t think they were very good at that not being
under the Soviet boota socialist paradise thing yet.Comment by Sdferr on 12/18 @ 1:08 pm #
Social Justice Solidarity High School, ever heard of it? And isn’t this perilously close to discriminatory ostracism by proxy?
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 1:10 pm #
You mean you don’t love me? Like a friend, I mean!
From poets?
What do you mean by nasty? Those children that you spit on are our future.
I’m glad you had a nice trip and that from your travel you were able to draw so many quick conclusions. Did you find a McDonalds OK?
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 1:11 pm #
@ 225
Do you have to take some sort of test affirming your gayness to get in? What about bisexuals? Did this guy not forsee how awful an idea that is?
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 1:12 pm #
O thor, if you only knew. After the USSR fell, there was a 3 hour line to the newly opened McDonalds. And they sell beer there.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/18 @ 1:14 pm #
Pilsner Urquell? Staropramen?
Comment by Sdferr on 12/18 @ 1:15 pm #
I dunno Dash, though I guess not. Would their self-selection have been the veil of conceptual modesty (not to say the skirt he hid behind)?
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 1:15 pm #
Budvar!
Comment by Roland THTG on 12/18 @ 1:17 pm #
Here ya go thor,
Motorcyle Tour in the Workers Paradise!
Some of the better areas, I’m sure. You can easily miss this stuff if you’re looking for Micky Dees all the time.
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 1:18 pm #
I don’t remember any beer there, no. Unless there’s a one-off one there selling beer, they don’t sell beer there.
And there’d be a slightly more substantial reason for McDonalds success than McDonalds/America’s breathtaking capitalist intellect. And did you know McDonald’s is more succesful in Moscow than any other city in the world, with what, maybe 300-400 MickeyDees there and the surrounding areas.
Want to know why? Nah. Nevermind.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/18 @ 1:19 pm #
Budvar! King of beers!
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/18 @ 1:20 pm #
McDonald’s is good drunk food, is why.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/18 @ 1:20 pm #
But only because they don’t have 7-11 burritos, yet.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/18 @ 1:20 pm #
Or Taco Bell, probably.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 1:20 pm #
No, they certainly sell beer there. Everybody loves the golden arches. Silly thor.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 1:24 pm #
KFC, for that matter strategically positioned right next to the entrance of a club.
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 1:31 pm #
Ohhh I could tell you the sound that each and every one of those Moscow motorcycles make, actually. See, when you’re a White God living in a Stalin-scraper in the city center you need to keep your window open at night in the Summer to gain access to the stinkin’ polluted cool air. This relevation might scare some here, but here it comes – Moscow is a big city, much like New York City (show of hands of those who know what NYC is?). Come summertime in the evil empire, every babushkafucker within 10-thousand miles of Moscow makes point to remove his muffler and jolly ride through the city at high speed. A resulting plethora of exhaust pipe harmony bounces off the walls of the buildings and into the open windows of all the visiting White Gods’ and Muscovites’ windows.
4 a.m. fun of killing flies to the sounds of Suzukis – They ain’t got no cure for the summertime blues in Moscow either, outside of well-aimed Baltika bottles. But the Baltika beer bottle wars are another symphony of sound for another time.
Comment by Pellegri on 12/18 @ 1:32 pm #
Can we abbreviate Free Speech Zone to FSZ so we can have more nifty acronyms like assclown?
Also, I did my homework. Turns out both the DNC and the RNC had FSZs during the 2004 elections, and.. (scrolling, scrolling) …whoa! Here’s ACORN again, being supported by the ACLU versus the Secret Service in protesting the existence of FSZs at Bush’s assemblies that kept protesters away from where cameras could see them.
*headscratch* Didn’t Obama do something like this? (Did McCain?) And how much does the Secret Service change from presidency to presidency? Because it sounds more like this is a Secret Service thing than a policy of Republicans or Democrats or the Green Party or whatever–which makes the indignation against it ring hollow when people started protesting it in 2003 without looking for any prior information on the practice.
Also, sir ass, hypocrisy can’t ignore the arrow of time. If the political left was wailing about FSZs in 2003/2004 but now chooses to overlook them as they pop up like mushrooms on college campuses (traditionally thought to be a bastion of progressive thought, etc.) in 2008, whereas the political right was ignoring their existence previously and is now annoyed at them, I’m inclined to say the former is hypocritical while the latter is simply uninformed. Or doesn’t care, since their condemnation of an FSZ’s existence is meant as a blanket condemnation, and do we REALLY need to list every specific instance?
//
All I know about vacationing in the Czech Republic–well, then Czechoslovakia–was the time my mom had to sleep in her room’s bathtub with a raincoat on because she couldn’t breathe due to allergies while on the feather mattress provided. She didn’t mention anything else about the country while recounting that story…
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 1:34 pm #
Maybe keep telling yourself that.
Comment by Pellegri on 12/18 @ 1:37 pm #
Wait, Moscow is an urban center?! WITH CARS?!
Dude, I thought everywhere in Russia was a tiny village with babushkas that picked mushrooms in the summertime. Where chocolate and Levis are the traditional media of exchange!
…what’s with me and mushrooms today?
Comment by Carin's got a sore head on 12/18 @ 1:38 pm #
Dash, unless you’ve banged a few Russian hookers, your not allowed to make any pronouncements about Russia. Even about something as inconsequential as selling beer at McDonalds.
Comment by Pellegri on 12/18 @ 1:39 pm #
Oh, oops. Forgot to cite sources on my disjointed rambling up there:
“Free speech zone,” Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zones
Accessed 18 December 2008.
Comment by cynn on 12/18 @ 1:40 pm #
Hmmm … left-of-center cities that are relatively successful … Portland, Seattle, San Francisco? Would they qualify?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/18 @ 1:44 pm #
Guess these guys are full of shit, then.
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 1:45 pm #
If you don’t even know what’s going on in America why spout of Russia?
Hi cynn.
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 1:47 pm #
There’s a difference in Moscow and Prague. Catch the fire!
Comment by cynn on 12/18 @ 1:47 pm #
Holy shit, oil’s 37 bucks a barrel.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 12/18 @ 1:47 pm #
Yo, thorinsense, the sarcasm, it burns. Everybody knows that a very large contingent of people hate micky dees, yet they keep raking in the billions.
Comment by Pellegri on 12/18 @ 1:48 pm #
Living south of San Francisco, cynn, I’m not sure it does.
I mean, there are some very nice parts of San Francisco! …but then they get overrun by hobos and gang violence. Case in point–the Metreon used to be a very swanky, upscale Sony…gimmick, I guess, since it was hip and trendy and had all these neat little restaurants and an arcade based on the art of this one guy and a “The Way Things Work” store and all sorts of stuff. Then the vendors leasing there progressively went out of business, and it started to fall apart. Now it’s a monument to decay and…kinda sad. Last year there was a fatal shooting right outside–and this was supposed to be a decent part of town.
I dunno; perhaps I’m being too harsh on SF. But while I enjoy my visits there, they’ve always been tainted with memories of the parts of town where my parents told me to lock the car doors so we didn’t get jacked at a stoplight.
Comment by Pellegri on 12/18 @ 1:50 pm #
Also tainted by memories of my ex. Well, “tainted” is the wrong word; we had a great time. But very bittersweet indeed!
…mushrooms.
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 1:51 pm #
I’m not a McD hater. Two EggaMuffins for $2-bucks, it’s as if your making money for breakfast in a penny saved penny earned parallel.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/18 @ 1:53 pm #
WTFO?
Comment by Sdferr on 12/18 @ 2:11 pm #
Treacher made a funny on free speech for Obama ads in the WaPo.
Comment by Sdferr on 12/18 @ 2:12 pm #
Oops. Linked dropped in last post.
Comment by Pellegri on 12/18 @ 2:20 pm #
Ha! Well done, sir Treacher.
Comment by Sdferr on 12/18 @ 2:25 pm #
A fig under his coat for the Wapo.
I’ll bet Dan Collins could churn those out by the dozens.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 2:43 pm #
“Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 11:18 am #
And the U of C’s “Free Speech Zones†are to prevent protests from disrupting the learning process going on in the classrooms, Carin.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!11
O, sweet jeebus on a pogo stick, that statement coming from a reactionary leftist is one of the funniest things typed EVAH!
ROTFLMAO
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 2:45 pm #
“Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 12:35 pm #
JD – You don’t know me, so please stop trying to assign motives that don’t exist.”
Sure thing. Mr. Projection.
I’ll make a note of it.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 2:47 pm #
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 12:32 pm #
Comment by Roland THTG on 12/18 @ 12:29 pm #
Asswipe,
It’s not your country.
Google it.
It’s Barack Obama’s, maybe?”
Only a reactionary left fascist would believe something like that.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 2:53 pm #
“Why, thank you for the notation of my superior civility.”
I’m telling you, the dude is fucking delusional.
Nuttier than squirell shit.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 2:56 pm #
“#Comment by cynn on 12/18 @ 1:40 pm #
Hmmm … left-of-center cities that are relatively successful … Portland, Seattle, San Francisco? Would they qualify?”
For third world status, sure.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 2:57 pm #
“Comment by cynn on 12/18 @ 1:47 pm #
Holy shit, oil’s 37 bucks a barrel.”
Market’s work?
HOLY SHIT!
Comment by happyfeet on 12/18 @ 2:59 pm #
I don’t understand Treacher’s funny. I feel fail.
Comment by Sdferr on 12/18 @ 3:00 pm #
First letters hf.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 3:16 pm #
Pellegri – Mushrooms. Nice curveball there.
Comment by BJTexs on 12/18 @ 3:39 pm #
Everybody remember this plan to indoctrinate students at U. of Delaware? While we bat our trolls about free speech zones at political events or governor’s mansions 12 years past, college campuses are enforcing rules that not only restrict free speech but try and indoctrinate students into “proper” views on a variety of subjects.
Note in the article that despite a firestorm of protest and the programs cancellation, the residence department has attempted to re institute the program three times since then. Thankfully the faculty board has rejected the requests, no doubt still smarting from the whupping they took when this “all whites are racists” training program was running.
Comment by Roland THTG on 12/18 @ 3:46 pm #
I believe the Democrats had a “Speech Zone” in 1988 DNC Convention Atlanta, most certainly in 1992.
Comment by cranky-d on 12/18 @ 3:47 pm #
I’m glad hf asked about the Treacher funny, cuz I didn’t get it either.
Comment by happyfeet on 12/18 @ 3:54 pm #
oh. OH! thanks, Sdferr. I get it. I don’t think it’s worth giving the WaPo real monies to run it though. Mr. Treacher doesn’t have comments that I could find. That’s not spectacularly free speechy I don’t think.
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/18 @ 4:03 pm #
he’s funny that way. ever so often he’ll have a comment post, but you’re always free to email him.
Comment by Mark A. Flacy on 12/18 @ 4:06 pm #
As to thor’s comment @165, I would be quite happy if more of his comments were along those lines than the more rabid stuff. I personally welcome that post of his and wish there were more of them.
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 4:14 pm #
Play up thaqt REpublican anti-intellectual is, noBrain, please.
Enemies of the Republican party:
1. Working class Americans
2. College educated Americans
3. Retired Americans
Comment by happyfeet on 12/18 @ 4:14 pm #
That’s sad about the America is a socialist country part. I just hate that.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 12/18 @ 4:18 pm #
Citizens, your free-speech ration cards are almost depleted for the month. But if you go to the registrar’s office you can add more minutes* for a slight student activity fee.
-The University Administration.
*Good only in the campus free speech zone between 1:55 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. Sundays. Please reference your student handbooks for additional restrictions.
Comment by BJTexs on 12/18 @ 4:25 pm #
I hope this was someone sockpuppeting alphie because that entire sentence is “anti-intellectual.”
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 4:34 pm #
But, but typos and swearing are signs of intelligence to Republicans.
Quite a quandry!
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 4:38 pm #
alphie/sniffles/parsnip- Why do you insist on going to places where you are clearly not welcome?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 4:41 pm #
“Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 4:14 pm #
Play up thaqt REpublican anti-intellectual is, noBrain, please.
Enemies of the Republican party:
1. Working class Americans
2. College educated Americans
3. Retired Americans”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!
Oh, alphie, you are one braindead reactionary.
BBUUWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA!!!!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 4:42 pm #
“Play up thaqt REpublican”
“Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 4:34 pm #
But, but typos and swearing are signs of intelligence to Republicans.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
alfie, cut it out, yer killin’ me here.
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 4:44 pm #
Do try to stay on topic, JD.
N.o, your celebration of your own ignorance is…touching in a Gumpian sorta way.
Comment by BJTexs on 12/18 @ 4:44 pm #
Typos and spelling and sentence structure: Oh, my!
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 5:03 pm #
Is your theory that the Republican party consists of rich, uneducated, young people?
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 5:06 pm #
My theory is the Republican party is now down to self-hating gays and socialists, mossy.
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 5:13 pm #
Fixed that for ya, boot slurper.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 5:16 pm #
alphie/sniffles/parsnip- Why do you persist on going to places where you are clearly not welcome?
Comment by happyfeet on 12/18 @ 5:16 pm #
Someone’s gonna do the work any day now to pull together all the “we’ll never see oil below $100 again in our lifetimes” brilliance that the AP and the Jeannine Aversa cooze and their NPR pals spewed and spewed.
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 12/18 @ 5:17 pm #
My theory is the Republican party is now down to self-hating gays and socialists, mossy.
Two groups utterly distinct and sperate from working, educated or retired Americans. Ok thanks, we got it now.
Who kneow that self loathing gheys and socialists are trust fund rubes. There must be some special island they live on that polls Republican 100% of the time. Perhaps its Mallorca. I hear they have a lot of ghey raves there. And you die young.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 5:20 pm #
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 5:13 pm #
The funny thing that thorg’s ignorance of economics is only outstripped by his ignorance.
One insane schmuck, our thorg.
Comment by happyfeet on 12/18 @ 5:22 pm #
I don’t know about composition but numerically the number of self-loathing straight people is bound to dwarf the number of self-loathing gay people, which is probably a lot more key to electoral demographics, but that’s just math.
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 5:23 pm #
Nancy Pelosi finally got the price of oil down like she promised she would.
Bless her!
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 12/18 @ 5:24 pm #
Thor – being the international trader/Moscow Correspondent/Trust Fund Baby/Russian Punani Connoisseur. WHY are the markets collapsing?
Comment by happyfeet on 12/18 @ 5:25 pm #
Nancy Pelosi won’t let California drill for oil while it begs and begs for monies like a smelly homeless person. California doesn’t even have the dignity of a United Auto Worker worker, which, that’s really pitiful.
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 12/18 @ 5:29 pm #
Nancy Pelosi finally got the price of oil down like she promised she would.
Bless her!
WRONG. She tried to do the opposite by trying to keep supply off the market. Ha. And they blame Bush as being the oilman.
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 5:30 pm #
It will soon be a good time for Blue States to be asking for gummint money happy.
Red States, not so much.
That’s how the game works.
Comment by JD on 12/18 @ 5:34 pm #
sniffles/alphie/turnip really is vapid.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 5:43 pm #
I think Wall Street is located in a blue state.
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 12/18 @ 5:45 pm #
Since when does math/logic/reason apply to the resident trolls?
This is what the Baracky has in store if he insists on negotiating with Iran.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 12/18 @ 5:49 pm #
Citizens – you are over the limit on your free speech ration cards. You are deviants. Come along quitely if you know what is good for you. Do not be afraid, your right to remain silent will be strictly enforced. The university will insist on that.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 6:09 pm #
Alphie, AIG Headquarters is located at 70 Pine St. New York, NY 10270! Blue State?
Comment by happyfeet on 12/18 @ 6:14 pm #
Blue States don’t ask for money they just take it. This is Baracky’s America.
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 6:29 pm #
Darleen and Maggie, is this you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg7uGL6Ku20
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 6:29 pm #
Hello?
Alphie?
Parsnip?
Bueller?
Is this thing on?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 6:36 pm #
“#
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 5:23 pm #
Nancy Pelosi finally got the price of oil down like she promised she would.
Bless her!”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!
STOP IT ALFIE!!!!!
Comment by Carin on 12/18 @ 6:36 pm #
OH LOOK- Root veggie tried to make a funny.
Perhaps you should just stick with your “village idiot” title. Teh comedy doesn’t appear to be strong with you.
Comment by Big D on 12/18 @ 6:37 pm #
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 5:06 pm #
My theory is the Republican party is now down to self-hating gays and socialists, mossy
I thought we were the party of rich white people. Did I miss the memo?
Comment by guinsPen on 12/18 @ 6:42 pm #
‘nip revealed.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 6:43 pm #
I was hoping to get a response regarding parsnip’s statement that it would be a good time for blue states to ask for gummint money, when, in fact, most of the bailout money went to Wall Street firms located in lower Manhattan! New York! Very Democratic! Maybe their employees live in Oklahoma, but I doubt it.
Comment by Junior Soprano on 12/18 @ 6:52 pm #
And I’m hoping to boink Angie Dickinson.
Let’s see who gets lucky first.
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 6:55 pm #
The two aren’t mutually exclusive, mossy.
I predict less government pork for “defense” projects and plenty o cash for “green” projects quite soon.
As Bill Ayres said, “You don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind’s blowin’.”
Comment by Mikey NTH on 12/18 @ 6:56 pm #
#310 Mossberg500:
You were looking for a non-sequiter? Why?
Comment by Junior Soprano on 12/18 @ 7:02 pm #
As Harry Bellafonte said, “Yo ‘nip, WhyO? LieO?“
Comment by guinsPen on 12/18 @ 7:02 pm #
Blast.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 7:05 pm #
“As Bill Ayres said, “You don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind’s blowin’.â€Â
It was Bob Dylan, you fucking idiot.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
“Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin’ that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone’s tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D. A.
Look out kid
Don’t matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don’t try “No Doz”
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don’t need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows”
You’re an idiot, alfie, a dyed-in-the-wool dregs of the gene pool moron.
Comment by Pablo on 12/18 @ 7:09 pm #
Michigan is blue, ain’t it? Snippy might be on to something.
Damn you, George Bush!
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 7:10 pm #
I know N.O.,
I figured you hadn’t raged enough today, though.
Don’t forget to wipe those flecks of spittle from your screen.
They can build up.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 7:12 pm #
What’s not mutually exclusive?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 7:13 pm #
“Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 7:10 pm #
I know N.O.,”
No you didn’t moron.
Stop lying.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 7:14 pm #
Oh, and alfie?
I’m laughing at you.
So much for spittle, eh?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 7:15 pm #
“#Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 7:12 pm #
What’s not mutually exclusive?”
The words “alfie” and “moron”.
Comment by parsnip on 12/18 @ 7:17 pm #
AIG getting bailout money and Obama’s reign being a good time for Blue States to get money from the government.
No Brain, I don’t really pity you.
Cheer up!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/18 @ 7:18 pm #
“No Brain, I don’t really pity you.”
I pity you, moron.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/18 @ 7:26 pm #
Oh, I missed the “Obama’s reign” part in the previous comments prior to the one above. My mistake.
Comment by Big D on 12/18 @ 7:54 pm #
Obama’s reign?
All hail King Barky the First!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 12/18 @ 7:57 pm #
#317 pablo:
Michigan is blue because it is frickin’ cold right now!
Curse you Austin Powers Al Gore! Right Mr. Wigglesworth?
Merrrooorrrroww!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 12/18 @ 7:58 pm #
Reign?
So much for democracy.
Comment by happyfeet on 12/18 @ 8:00 pm #
I don’t think Baracky will do much more than give Harry and Nancy a blank check. He’s a lot less relevant than you’d think from what you read.
Comment by geoffb on 12/18 @ 8:05 pm #
Yeah but any money coming to Michigan will always flow to the lowest point, our own cesspool of Democrat swirling corruption, Detroit, with a small outflow to A-squared.
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 12/18 @ 8:43 pm #
A few trolls are dragging down the level of discourse here far too easily. I was originally attracted to read posts at this site by conversations in threads that do *not* involve any back and forth with such empty souls. You will note that their posts are never about anything, quite devoid of content. Understandably, responses to them also tend to have little real content. This current crop of one-trick ponies is witless, unrewarding to study, and the furthest thing from novel.
I say block them. They are asking for such quite directly.
Adversarial freaks who are actually interesting specimens will still turn up from time to time. Just my opinion.
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/18 @ 8:47 pm #
“As Bill Ayres said, “You don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind’s blowin’.”
Parsnip,
Using a tone of peurile admiration, like a teenie-bopper admiring the Jonas brothers, when quoting Bill Ayers reveals just how far beyond help you really are…
If you had any sense of civic responsibility or social justice, you’d take a long walk off a short pier, and put us all out of our misery…
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/18 @ 8:50 pm #
“AIG getting bailout money and Obama’s reign being a good time for Blue States …”
Obama’s reign? All hail Chimperor ObaMussoliniSoros!
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/18 @ 9:52 pm #
Wm T Sherman – I’ve been asking for people to leave them out of the discussion until something substantive is said – but not many takers so far. Perhaps Jeff will get some registration going, so we can Trollhammer more effectively.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 12/18 @ 9:52 pm #
You know, after the first couple hundred posts the trolls do get just a bit tedious..
Comment by Swen Swenson on 12/18 @ 9:56 pm #
Now that’s racist — I’m sure he’s no more closely related to a chimp than parsnip or thor. Although I’ll admit that with those ears and a bit of a headwind he could fly like Dumbo.
Comment by geoffb on 12/18 @ 9:58 pm #
And this is why he fits right in with the other plagiarizing, fantasizing, narcissists like Biden and Obama.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 12/18 @ 10:00 pm #
Hey! There’s a thought. Perhaps O! could get Sally Fields to coach him in the finer aspects of being a flying twatwaffle. (Just exercisin’ my free speech while I still can, doncha know.)
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/18 @ 10:03 pm #
Swen,
That handle is simply a variation on that which the left has reffered to Booooooosh! as for the last 6 years; Chimperor BusHitlerBurton…Chimperor as a bastardization of Emperor…
If you knew that and were being tongue-in-cheek, then sorry I’m so slow on the uptake; but it’s late here in NYC…
Comment by Swen Swenson on 12/18 @ 10:10 pm #
Thanks Bob, but despite all appearances I wasn’t born yesterday :D
Comment by Swen Swenson on 12/18 @ 10:12 pm #
At this point I’d probably have to have my tongue surgically removed from my cheek..
Comment by Swen Swenson on 12/18 @ 10:16 pm #
Which is still better than needing my tongue surgically removed from my own butt, like a couple of our trolls…
Boldly going where no man has cared to go! Stretching the bounds of what’s anatomically possible!!
Comment by Swen Swenson on 12/18 @ 10:18 pm #
Damn, that Wild Turkey 101 is good stuff..
Comment by daleyrocks on 12/18 @ 10:30 pm #
“In a darkened bathroom stall Phil Gramm could be easily confused for Larry Craig, or 50-or-so other Republican lawmakers.”
Thor – I’m surprised you’re claiming expertise on this. I didn’t know you’ve been such a busy guy. Talk about a guzzle fest! How are your knees holding up?
Comment by SSG RaTsO -- Proud to be ODD! on 12/18 @ 10:31 pm #
But what about Phil Graham?
Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 10:42 pm #
“Wm T Sherman – I’ve been asking for people to leave them out of the discussion until something substantive is said – but not many takers so far.”
There is a very good reason for this – the regulars here are vicious fuckwits who are stupid and vain to do something as easy as ignore trolls. So, you know, my job is easy.
Comment by happyfeet on 12/18 @ 10:45 pm #
I’m not vicious.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/18 @ 10:48 pm #
hf, please ignore the Typing Telephone Poles, if you could.
Comment by cynn on 12/18 @ 10:50 pm #
Well, just block us the hell allready.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/18 @ 10:53 pm #
Cynn, when you reach the level of an alphie or thor or assclown, perhaps.
Comment by happyfeet on 12/18 @ 10:58 pm #
sorry. Here was something interesting. I saw a guy get wired today. He was sort of a hispanic sort and they tucked a mic inside his collar. They got out of some some car on Ventura and there was another car parked in front of that one what people got out of. This one was a parking enforcement vehicle. And some Latina lady that had done the wiring got a camera out of the parking enforcement one – a real very professional digital movie camera thing. They weren’t trying to be hidey or anything, but they didn’t look like they wanted to be ask what was up. And we watched them for awhile but they didn’t do anything with the camera. It was probably something very mundane and journalisty or an internal video for whatever purpose but you couldn’t tell for sure and it bugs me I’ll never know.
Comment by happyfeet on 12/18 @ 10:59 pm #
to be *asked* I meant.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/18 @ 11:01 pm #
hf, I’ve got a dollar to a donut that it was setting up for one of two law enforcement outcomes: undercover buy of something or maybe people trying to bribe their way out of tickets? Don’t laugh – when you get to Chicago prices, they may. That or Internal Affairs is trying to get someone on the take…
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/18 @ 11:08 pm #
That there’s some weapons-grade stupid.
Comment by happyfeet on 12/18 @ 11:09 pm #
I kind of got that feel… the wired guy was regular joe looking, so Internal Affairs makes more sense. They were at the same spot I saw a parking officer person get out of his car with his ticket pad thing, notice an Obama hope sticker on the offending vehicle, then get back in his car and drive away. It probably shouldn’t have been as chill-inducing as it was, but it really was.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/18 @ 11:10 pm #
Slart – perhaps inaction, spluttering and false promises really can lower commodity prices!
Comment by SarahW on 12/18 @ 11:10 pm #
Just popping in to see if the trolls are still too thick to get around. I need some comment snowshoes.
Comment by David R. Block on 12/18 @ 11:12 pm #
Yeah, Cynn (349), you’ve got a long, long, LONG, way to go.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/18 @ 11:14 pm #
SarahW, I have renewed my call for non-engagement. Please.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/18 @ 11:16 pm #
You never know until you try, Major.
How many days to LtCol?
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/18 @ 11:18 pm #
Slart – well, the fools, er, folks here in Illinois swear they will get my Federal recognition to the NGB in January…how long it takes them…?
Allah willing and the wadi don’t rise, sometime in February I will pin LTC on.
Comment by cynn on 12/18 @ 11:24 pm #
David R Block, tax consultant, I don’t block you because it’s simply too difficult, and I think it’s wrong.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/18 @ 11:26 pm #
Oh, sweet. Well-deserved, I’d think.
What’s the delay on the pay bump to grade? I seem to recall that you get to be called LtCol long before they actually pay you like one.
Comment by cynn on 12/18 @ 11:27 pm #
Why do I think David R Block is a tax consultant? Whoa, too much CSI.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/18 @ 11:30 pm #
Slart – we don’t “frock” much anymore. I can’t put on the rank, even if the State thinks I am an O-5… It will be enough to be able to retire someday and sit on the front porch, in a rocking chari, with a gin and tonic and call myself “cun-uhll” in a fake Southern accent. Maybe a phony British one? “Leff-tenant Colonel” does have a nice ring to it.
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 11:31 pm #
I’ll tutor ya cynn if you want to catch up with the rest of the class.
Comment by cynn on 12/18 @ 11:33 pm #
All I know is the Saudis are soiling their saris right about now.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/18 @ 11:38 pm #
Arabs don’t wear saris – that is an Indian garb – but I take your meaning, and I have to admit, as much as I’d like the Iraqis to have the revenue, I have to smile that the despots lording it over the Iranians, Saudis and Venezulans are getting the shcok of their oil revenue lives…
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/18 @ 11:39 pm #
shock, that is.
Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 11:43 pm #
Hi, nice to meet you. My name is thor. I saw you sitting there Indian style probing your navel with such interest that I figured you must be bored.
Feral hamsters, sPies sells baby ones. You don’t want to know why. Are you a drug addict?
Comment by cynn on 12/18 @ 11:48 pm #
Well, maybe not saris but aren’t all guazy fabric shit a cover for evil?
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/18 @ 11:50 pm #
Not really, but there are plenty of evil folks wearing “dish-dashes” or “man-jamas” as some call them.
Comment by Makewi on 12/18 @ 11:52 pm #
Probably been covered, but free speech zones were the invention of the city of Atlanta, first used at the Democratic convention in Atlanta in 1988.
Orwellian then, and now.
Comment by cynn on 12/18 @ 11:58 pm #
Maj. J: Thanks for being a sport. Will we soon have the Doily Division?
Comment by thor on 12/19 @ 12:00 am #
FSZ’s are cool. Anything that makes r-wingers convulse and speak gibberish is cool.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/19 @ 12:02 am #
cynn, Gawd I hope not!
time to retire, so I may duel with DEATHSTORM 2008, THE SNOW!!! If you can believe Weather.com. that is.
Comment by cynn on 12/19 @ 12:05 am #
You guys are lucky to have thor here. Otherwise, there would be no scalability.
Comment by Makewi on 12/19 @ 12:05 am #
Yeah, you don’t like FSZ either thor, but you like making r-wingers angry more. To each his own I guess.
Comment by cynn on 12/19 @ 12:09 am #
Great, DEATHSTORM in all fuckin’ caps. Thanks for clueing in Obama, traitor.
Comment by cynn on 12/19 @ 12:31 am #
If a countervaling rankling voice like thor weren’t here I’d be gone. No big loss, but I’d miss you.
Comment by Merovign on 12/19 @ 12:42 am #
I know it will be lost in troll-spittle, but I just had to throw out a proposal for a new name for this school:
The Monoversity of Cincinnatti.
Comment by Mark A. Flacy on 12/19 @ 10:09 am #
Cynn, there’s a difference between being a “countervaling rankling voice” and thor’s usual imitation of tubgirl.
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 12/20 @ 10:40 pm #
See, this was my point. These troll responses are empty and machine-like. There’s no basis for responding.
346. Comment by assclown on 12/18 @ 10:42 pm #
There is a very good reason for this – the regulars here are vicious fuckwits who are stupid and vain to do something as easy as ignore trolls. So, you know, my job is easy.
370. Comment by thor on 12/18 @ 11:43 pm #
Hi, nice to meet you. My name is thor. I saw you sitting there Indian style probing your navel with such interest that I figured you must be bored.
Feral hamsters, sPies sells baby ones. You don’t want to know why. Are you a drug addict?