and that’s what makes us fully human.
As a gift to America on the momentous occasion of Obama’s inauguration, Jeremy Lott gives us the most perfect enunciation of BDS evah.
Journalists must continue not to be to blame for anything.
I dislike seeing the words “balls” and “slash” in the same sentence.
Add another one to my “hunt down iRL and deck” list.
Although the Dali Lama loves Bush. ke ke ke
Isn’t Inauguration Day one big FU to some of the Brits anyway?
How can we claim to be good English-speaking peoples, when we don’t have QEII on our money?
(Apologies to all friendly people of the English persuasion)
Submit, bitches. Yeah, I said it.
…and when you were gone, I was human too.
“Bush’s moves toward torture”
Wait, didn’t we waterboard just three people? And waterboarding as torture is even debatable.
JD, what’s up? Haven’t seen you around here lately.
All humans detest George Bush. Those who do not detest George Bush are not human. QED. It’s just the first step in the process, and a little glimpse of things to come.
Enjoy the purges, comrades! Pass the vodka!
Enough with your distractions….is the planet healed yet? All I can see is Woodfield Mall and the Chicago skyline from our office windows.
The planet’s psyche is healed, Major John. Isn’t that the essential thing?
When Michael Vick was most dangerous he was on Astroturf. Add that to your sales pitch, I double dare ya.
A friend of mine just remarked about “sitting back and taking in the enormity of it all.” I was happy to agree with her, though it was all I could do to keep from saying, “I do not think that means what you think it means.”
Squid, heh.
That’s one for the LOL SAT prep.
Hate is for kool-aid drinkers and those who prefer the more fascist leanings of politics.
I haven’t hated anyone in my life except perhaps my First Sergeant, who was literally trying to get me killed, but I was young.
These days one starts to see the bent religion of the seccprogg and it sucks mightily.
I prefer the Dalai Lama’s comments. They seem a little more measured.
Europe will never forgive W for showing the world just how pussified Europe has become. Nor for winning in Iraq. Nor for giving future Presidents the levers they need to win the war on radical Islam. Nor for continuing to support Israel. Nor for his lack of sophisticiation (aka being able to see things as they are). Nor for his unapologetic Christianity. Nor for failing to buy in on global warming/climate change/whatever they call it these days. Nor for exploding the Vietnam mentality.
And on, and on.
Europe would prefer an apologetic philanderer. Preferably owned by the PRC or the House of Saud.
I look forward to his review of the Obama Presidency. If it’s anything as splenetic, I will consider Obama to have been a massive success.
Hey Maj John, you served in Iraq, did any Europeans die in Iraq? Were they pussies?
Another rethuglidum idiot faced.
Just had a FB friend compare today to the first lunar landing, with today coming out ahead as the greater experience.
I feel kind of ill.
Today:Moon landing.
They did cost about the same, didn’t they?
Thoroughly corrupt election of empty suit = triumph of science and will
Got it.
Now, now, thor. Policies are different from people. Maybe the commenter could have said, France or Germany, instead of Europe. But, Europe, western Europe especially, is most certainly being “pussified”. You don’t seem like an appeaser to me, so I’d expect you agree.
oops, that = should have been >
You can strike the thouroghly corrupt descriptor (if you wish) cranky, and you’re still right. But, you have to understand, it’s how they “feel”. It trumps all.
I’m putting a progressive spin on his tenure.
thoroid: Yes, a few Europeans died in Iraq and Afghanistan. The point is, would they have been there at all, if not for the U.S.? We’ll wait while you formulate your undoubtedly pathetic answer. Or would you rather continue in the vein with which you have gone through your entire existence, and have me answer it for you?
“The Obamas” a cartoon series
Don’t be. Everyone knows the first lunar landing was staged on a sound set in Hollywood. Just like Barry’s election.
“Governance demands more nuance than politics, and Obama’s responsibilities as president, if honestly pursued, will sometimes fall short of his rhetoric as a candidate. We’re braced for that, as the nation should be.”
Translation: We agree with Chris Tingle and Tavis Smiley that our job is to make this President and his presidency successful…
What a bunch of hooey; they’re his water boys all the way…
And did you see the link to the Jonathan Chait piece in the guardian piece? Click through to it if you want to get the full flavor of BDS. And these same hypocrites have the nerver to talk about post-partisanship, unity, and the absolute moral neccesity of giving Obama his honeymoon, the benefit of the doubt, and our full support and unconditional cooperation…
Ovber 100 events for this inauguration; the most since Clinton!
Fancy that, who would’a suspected…
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A public service announce from a friendly Obamabot.
How can you control tears…of joy?
I’m going to stop at the gas station and fill up my rig on the way home tonight. The One will take care of the cost for me, right, snip?
Lotsa change on Wall Street today…not so much hope.
And when I get home there will be skittles everywhere!
European militaries are broken down into two groups (and each one has a couple of subcategories):
Those others could, and have, labeled “pussies” – ie., the Germans. Won’t fight, work 9-5 and aren’t all that interested in doing more than getting off shift to go drink beer. See Afghanistan.
Subcategories: so-so troops that have seen their governments wave the white flag with small losses (ie. Italy, Spain) Decent forces that labor under restrictions that make them appear like wusses (ie. Dutch Airforce)
Those who are not so adverse to actually helping out – ie. the Poles< Lithuanians, Czechs and Rumanians. They get battlespace or run SOF stuff, and will do what they can, even if it isn’t “safe” like a German area.
The subcategories are: Good militaries, but their top leadership is timid (British in Al-Basrah and Maysaan provinces, Iraq); and micro-contingents that have just showed up to show the flag, but we love ’em enayways (ie. Estonia)
Frankly, minus the British, Poles and Rumanians, the Georgians may have contributed more than the rest of Europe…
PS, France is too hard to judge as just one category, because they waffle from doing some helpful things and leaving or being too bound (all this in Afghanistan, of course).
I hereby demand that ALL Democratic officeholders immediately step down and subject themselves to citizen tribunals. They will be replaced by Republicans for the forseeable future.
That is all.
Question: What’s the difference between the Moon and Washington DC?
Answer: Nothing, except there’s less of a vacuum on the Moon than in Congress.
#24 ginsocal:
No, the Europeans wouldn’t have been there because they really do not either the airlift or sealift to go it alone in a big way. The question of national will is another thing altogether.
#32 Maj. John:
With respect to the smaller contingents, my opinion is that these countries sent their better troops, with the understanding that by working with the US military they were also targeting those junior officers and non-coms that they expected to move up the ranks and be their future upper echelon leaders.
My little brother confirmed that he thought that was true with many of the contingents in Afghanistan, from Estonia, Lithuania, and elsewhere.
America’s elites do not merely disapprove of Bush. They loathe him. … Chait objected to Bush’s policies, as well as, for lack of a better term, his Texas-ness.
Chait complained about “the way he walks”, “the way he talks”, “his lame nickname bestowing”, his good ole boyness and his social privilege. He admitted: “I suspect that, if I got to know [Bush] personally, I would hate him even more.”
No class snobbery there, no sir. Though I guess that among some Brits, it’s still de rigeur to be openly aristocratic.
That personalised contempt is now widespread, and widely vented. …
“Widely” meaning “in more circles than my tight, narrow, little one,” I reckon. Yeah, if the British elite, the American East-Coast elite, and Hollywood agree, that constitutes “widespread.” Moron.
Of course, you don’t have to be a film critic or a liberal to look down on W. By conviction or necessity, we are all Bush haters now. Even those conservatives who defended him while in office will now face a stark choice: repudiate much of Bush’s legacy or be rendered ridiculous.
Rendered ridiculous in whose eyes? Not everyone is as desperate as you are to win the approval of the Right People. Geez, what a loser.
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America’s elites do not merely disapprove of Bush. They loathe him. …”
Because he won the war in Iraq and broke their precious “Viet Nam” narrative.
Ooops.
To paraphrase somebody: I’m not proud of my country today.
Don’t count on me, Revrun, to ever prove to anyone that I’ve never been a racist. I embrace what’s right, Lowry, and it isn’t by your presumptuous, smartassed measure. It damned sure ain’t by your measure.
“Another rethuglidum idiot faced.”
hor, you’re not good enough to lick the sand from Maj. John’s combat boots.
Life is too short to loathe or love anyone whom I do not know personally. I’d be glad to sit down and have a chat with either George or Barack. Still want Barack’s transcripts, all of them, though (as a former teacher, I know for what I would be looking).
I had no idea “we” still asked blacks to get in back, that browns not stick around, that yellows not be mellow, and that the red man (good gad!) not get head. Man. Nor that whites do not already embrace what is right. Methinks the good Reverend should abstain from bad 1960s’-type poetry in his future endeavors.
The Constitution, which Obama today will swear to “preserve, protect and defend,” includes only one profession under its guarantees of protection: a free press.
God save us.
OI – Crazy work and travel schedule. Plus, the recent bukakke about this historic day has made me puke in the back of my mouth, repeatedly, making it hard to type.
I know the feeling, JD.
Except the bukakke part. I don’t know anything about that. Is it naughty?
kelly – Not unless you consider a bunch of the media standing around in a circle rubbing one out while telling the world how historic they are to be naughty.
Along similar lines, Al Roker had an orgasm on live television when Baracky waved at him. It was on MSNBC. I hurled.
Al Roker. Always sounded like an anal rash to me.
Anyway, I was tempted to open one more bottle of wine last night, but the better half warned me off. A hangover would not have been helpful today I’m thinking. I mean, why bother when the next four years will feel like one long hangover?
#43 ushie:
And that is what it is – bad 1960’s poetry. The elderly man is still fighting the battles of his youth, battles that are long over. It is the ‘French General Staff’ disease, ready to fight the last war. It is as if race relations in the USA run on a loop from slavery to Selma, and never move past it. I don’t think the official narrative will move past this until all of those involved in that fight go to their just rewards.
I cannot search youtube from my phone, but the Al Roker segment from MSNBC is barf inducing.
The only upside to all of this is that the idea of an “objective media” has so been put to rest.
Mikey NTH, yup. Although I noticed I wrote, “the red man (good gad!) not get head.”
I must have been thinking of Billy Jack.
The spirit of Rudyard Kipling is alive in America:
I’ve flogged you and I’ve flayed you
I’ve fucked and never paid you
But you’re a better man than I am Gunga Din.
Patronising bullshit! Was then and still is. Prepare for dhimmitude O pussified palefaces, it’s your turn in the barrel.
#51 ushie:
Billy Jack always got head. Foot to head, hand to head – he always got head.
Head, skull – whatever.
The 1960’s are as far from us today as the 1920’s were then.
Have you seen the new Studebakers!?!
I remember all those hep cats in the 60’s with their zoot suits and raccoon coats. Rebellious fashion sense never changes. Nowadays.
raccoon coats
Racist.
The roiling hate here is the pimply backside of America.
I’ve read even worse on other sites. They all shame the country they claim to love, and they do NOT believe in democracy.
America’s black population has suffered profoundly from the time the first slaves arrived, yet these bottom-feeders would deny them the simple joy of a day like this to celebrate. All inaugurations are historic, but this one so much more so – as is obvious from the millions of people of every color and nationality who came specifically to witness this one. And did so, not only peacefully, but with joy and bonhomie. Like it or not, the first president “of color” is indeed a profoundly historic milestone, one these pimples don’t want and wish they could eradicate. I guess people feeling joy, walking tall, helping one another, celebrating and expressing mutual optimism for the first time in eight years is somehow obscene and spineless to the pimples. They will learn, soon enough, that, though Obama is a kind of “softie,” there is more steel in him than they imagine. And he will USE that steel, in OUR behalf, not on behalf of himself and his cronies. For a change. The LAST thing we needed was a Messiah. I’m SO glad Obama isn’t one. We’ve had a bellyful of religion – anyone’s – being shoved down our throats. Religion belongs in the heart, the home and the houses of worship – NOWHERE ELSE. At least not in any democracy.
I’m white. I know white haters well enough of old, but I also have known many fine ones. The fine ones are just as happy today as our blacks are. They recognize the well-deserved celebration of those black folks, recognize how hard their struggle has been (and still IS), and we thoroughly enjoy seeing the flat-out delight on a multitude of black faces. They’re more beautiful that way, too. I haven’t shared their travails, but I CAN enjoy watching their happiness.
And ALL of the people, of ANY race, who came to or watched today’s events, recognize the significance of having a true intellect, a scholar, a man with great wisdom, compassion, realism, judgment, balance, diplomacy and maturity as our leader. We have every right to feel euphoric about it. The pimples say we chose him only for his color. How abysmally – and pitifully – inane.
We need this celebration, all of us, because it is a cathartic. We feel like freed canaries, liberated from the virtual prison of an almost-dictatorship. Our rights in tatters, gulags and torture chambers enabled for the first time in our history, our Constitution subjected to a brutal blue grease pen, our security worse than it ever was with many more enemies, our national integrity despoiled, our military blood squandered in a pointless and costly war, our jobs, homes and retirement funds squandered in order to feed a gaping maw of corporate and personal greed, then mortgaging the very soul of our nation to nations who mean us harm.
So while the absolutist theocrats, gun-mavens, hard-core bigots, neocons and mega-rich are vomiting this day, let them “have at it.” Just remember that the cathartic the rest of us have taken this day is making us do likewise – to rid our innards of the last vestiges of the oppressor.
And what a BEAUTIFUL sight, to see the tail of that helicopter, carrying the oppressor away.
Hasta la vista, baby!
WELCOME, President Obama! We haven’t a single doubt that you will EARN your keep! We neither need nor want a “Dear Leader.” We want an honest, focused, WORKING leader. And that is YOU.
I’m sorry, H.B., but all you’ve got is special pleading and special moronicity.
Despite your sense of entitlement, you’ve no right to my approbation after eight years of galling tantrums.
“We need this celebration, all of us, because it is a cathartic.”
Uh huh. Why aren’t you in a gulag by now, spanky? But speaking of catharsis, I did take a very gratifying dump today.
H.B. – I had typed out a lengthy response to your pompous arrogant childish diatribe. But it is easier to just call you a douchebag, and point and laugh at you.
I don’t need a sense of entitlement. And please, if you will be so kind (and even if you won’t)…TRY to imagine how little I care about having your approbation.
America chose brains, balance and quality. If that’s being moronic, I’d be delighted to hear how you reached that conclusion.
Tantrums? Hardly. But lots of us were blanching at times – like the lies, the torture, the snipping away at our Constitution. The only tantrums I’ve seen online, either during the campaign or now, have come from the far right – and with little or no control over their vile language, labels and slander.
YOU do not decide who is a Real American. Nor do I. Real Americans define themselves, by living by the principles of equality for all, as I have DONE. I didn’t just bemoan marginalization. I started an empowerment project for the marginalized Huichol here in Mexico, where I live, retired on disability. They now have their OWN nonprofit, a powerful tool for shaping their own destinies.
What have you done to “walk the walk,” chum?
I guess helping people in need is “moronicity,” huh? How, though, is what I’ve been doing equivalent to a tantrum or a sense of MY entitlement?
The absence of approbation from a hater is purest delight. So I guess I should thank you for depriving me of it.
I’ll give you vile language moron. Try this on for size:
na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye
Here’s some more for you, by you:
Yet more for you, by you:
I’m never near you
To comfort and cheer you
When all those sad tears are, HB, falling from your eyes
I may be thrilling, baby,
But his love
Is oh so willing, so kiss me
Gonna see you kiss me, goodbye
And this is yours too, I think:
H.B. – Obviously, you do not care, as you are taking time away from the celebration of the Ascension of Teh One to gloat and otherwise make an ass of yourself. You cannot even be a good winner. I cannot wait when reality greets Teh Lightworker, and he laughs at you and your ilk. Never fear, he can still count on your support.
No comment. OK, just a little one…pretentiousn wad.
That superfluous ‘n’ stand for “Nob!”
Okay, I will say it. H.B. is not a real American.
And I started a joint US-Mexican seafood venture out of Oaxaca. BFD.
“I started an empowerment project for the marginalized Huichol here in Mexico, where I live, retired on disability.”
So H.B., couldn’t you like find some kind of service project that could help out, you know, Americans..?
Or are you more of the citizen of the world type..?
And the whole disablility connivance is big here in NYC; nice pull on the scam there bud…
“And ALL of the people, of ANY race, who came to or watched today’s events, recognize the significance of having a true intellect, a scholar, a man with great wisdom, compassion, realism, judgment, balance, diplomacy and maturity as our leader…
We need this celebration, all of us, because it is a cathartic. We feel like freed canaries, liberated from the virtual prison of an almost-dictatorship.”
And of all the B.S. you wrote in your two comments, well this might just be the richest part of it all…
Here’s a clue, Amigo. With this kind of talk, I’m 100% sure that you have been suffering BDS for the last 7 or 8 years; and have been one of those ass-hats that bellows, “He’s not my President!” whenever Booooosh! was mentioned in conversation-regardless of the context…
I’m actually kind of happy that you are an ex-pat. Those are the first ones that the lightworker, oh pardon me, President lightworker will cutt off when it comes to trimming the budget. And, if you’re in Mexico, well then I never have to deal with your twisted self…
Crawl back under your rock H.B.
Hmmm….H.B.
Hasta Booooosh?
My Spanish is a bit rusty.
Purebred Democrat, they know their own.
Clinches it. Democrats believe in the mob rule of Democracy.
We however live in a Constitutional Republic. At least for now. H.B. undoubtedly has plans for that.
H.B. – Please, stay in Mexico. You appear to be doing some good there.
Pompous and childish diatribe? I’m probably old enough to be your parent, but I would not have raised someone like you. And the “douchebag” touch is classic, typical – and expected. When you have nothing of substance to say, namecalling works. Oh, I’m SO crushed! He called me a bad name! WOW that hurts! He’s pointing and laughing at me! I’m so ashamed! Is that what you wanted from me? Dream on.
Does a gulag have to contain ME to be a gulag? Dohh.
Is it pompous that my so-called “diatribe” was largely on behalf of OTHER people? How does that become pomposity?
I don’t NEED anything from Obama. I’m retired, comfortable and happy as a clam, living in an adjacent and equally viable democracy that I also love. I honor him, because I honor my homeland and recognize that this man can clean out the Augean Stables left behind by an administration that our own people agree was the worst, ever. Yet you’d prefer to think that all of them are morons, too, right? Dohh.
I’ve watched my country suffering, from afar, for YEARS – and I ACHE for THEM. Not for me. I love America, but I am NOT required to love everyone IN America. My patriotism is to the homeland I love, and the wonderful democracy it brought into the world, one which – until recently – had genuine standards it held itself to, and where those standards needed upgrading (as in women’s suffrage, and civil rights), we did it, wisely and willingly. We still have the haters, the theocrats, the greedy, and much more. That’ll never change, but at the very LEAST, we got out from under the thumb of an administration RUN by such people.
And if you don’t like it, pal, lump it. By the simple act of choosing a leader who will NOT carry on as the last one did, Americans have already saved themselves.
Obama is a Constitutional scholar. He will put the Constitution back into its original shape if he has to use Scotch Tape to do it.
And if you don’t like that either, old sock…
Please notice that I don’t use foul language, except in quoting YOURS. You poor miserable – uh – person.
I have yet to see one person making statements containing substance – it’s all namecalling and a hatefest. Enjoy. Who cares? Obama is my president, and YOUR president. Grow up and live with it. Deny that he’s your president till you’re blue – he’s still YOUR president. And though you are all Americans, and retain your citizenship and all your rights, people with this much hate and bile are no countrymen of MINE.
That is no country for other men . . .
You have nothing to give. It has been for you, as it has been for the Hollyweird elite, your country so long as it has AGREED with YOU. Don’t talk to me about your bleeding heart. You’ve been in Mexico long enough to know what happens when there’s no social trust, and people fear the police as much as they fear the criminals. And for eight years you and yours have pretended that that was the case here in the US. So, to be short about it, fuck off. You ought to know better.
And I believe you do.
I told you guys that Baracky is a Constitutional Scholar. Even Baracky does not claim that, asshat. He just embellishes and calls himself a Professor. There is not an ounce of substance to your inanity, H.B. It is standard new-age Leftist boilerplate, prolly written by someone like one of Baracky’s teleprompter writers. You also make up positions that people have not held, argue with imaginary caricatures in your head, and savagely rape an army of strawmen. You must be proud of yourself. Douchebag. On a day you should be celebrating, you have chosen to prove to the world that you are every bit the asshat that everyone believes you to be. Oh, and ending with your definition of who is a real American, while previously decrying said activity, is the kind of unintentional ironic humor that I simply adore. Step away from the mezcal.
Comment by H. B. on 1/20 @ 11:30 pm #
That post absolutely reeks of substance. Well played H. B. You’re a better man than all of us combined. Our country’s loss is Mexico’s gain.
Ahh, snipping away of the Constitution.
Let us pause to remember the other President who suspended habeus corpus. The fellow who’s leg everyone’s been humping today, that Great Liberator dude.
H.B., I’m assuming you know D.U. and Daily Kos, so you are likely engaging in “it’s only hate if I don’t agree with it,” yes?
I ran across timmah this morning, and now an ex-pat assbandit like H.B. I guess being content with their win was not enough for them. They are like the NFL player that feels compelled to dance and gesture after making a good play for a first down, rather than placing the ball where it belongs and going back to the line of scrimmage.
“Obama is a Constitutional scholar. He will put the Constitution back into its original shape if he has to use Scotch Tape to do it.”
H.B.,
Obama and the Democrats have absolutely no idea what the original Constitution was in, nor do they care…
They believe it to be a living document, with content that they can utilize situationally to accomodate their political exegencies. You see, they don’t actually believe in any documant meaning what the writer actaully intended; because “it’s all good”, whatever it means to you at that moment must be it’s true meaning…
Indeed, our new Chimperor believes the Constitution to be “a charter of negative liberties” that fails to specify what the government should do for you…
That’s incomprehensible to those who believe in non-revisionist factual history, and the notion that the constitution is a charter guaranteeing the personal liberties of the individual as well as the structure of the, intended, limited government…
Your rants and admonitions aside, you are precisely the kind of hater that has been unable to step back and be objective about a single thing that Booooosh! has done. And true to liberal form, you are just as rudely vociferous in demanding that we in the opposition become <ienlightened; in other words lay down and rubber stamp Obama’s policy proposals.
Your hypocrisy is mind-boggling, your characterizations cartoonish, your scolding asinine, and your outrage, at once well rehersed and tiring…
And you call us PWers pimples…Stay Classy, H.B.
um, no, he will make a new! improved! Constitution. It’s flawed, you know.
The roiling hate here is the pimply backside of America.
Buh-bye.
I just love how not agreeing with the Left morphs into TEH HATE !!!!!eleventy.
Goodnight, all. I expect that my mortgage payment will be taken care of and my gas tank full when I wake tomorrow. Or, in the alternative, Leprechauns and unicorns.
I think he was just taking the post title literally. They tend to do that. which is funny for people who are supposed to be all about nuance
My! I seem to have opened up a real tirade. That wasn’t my purpose. Nor was it to gloat. I do not regard myself as having won anything, so I can’t be either a good or a bad winner. There’s nothing to gloat about. I didn’t win anything, but my country did, and I’m glad.
Nor did I sink to calling anyone here “not American.” On the contrary, I said that neither you NOR I decide who’s a Real American and who isn’t. But people here seem eager to leap into deciding that I am NOT an American, because I don’t agree with them. McCarthyism seems to live on. What I said, though, applies to anyone here, whether they like it or not. I AM a good American, and saying I’m not doesn’t change that by a hair. Nor does trying to dehumanize me or diminish what I say by highlighting the fact that I live in Mexico. As if that affects the validity somehow????? Americans – at least the hateful ones – could learn a few things from the people here – like generosity of spirit.
And OH, I pity any American dude who hates Mexicans and sets up shop in Mexico, thinking they won’t figure him out! But they’re more gracious than we usually are – they are restrained and don’t pass judgment quickly, and don’t cave in to hate. Unlike the American I bumped into a year ago who sang “Hooray for Poverty” to the tune of “Hooray for Hollywood,” and expected me to get my daily giggle from it – because I’m white. Truly sick. After verbally peeling his racist skin, he slithered away.
Do YOU know a pharmacist or grocer who would deliver? AND let you have food or medicines on CREDIT? There are several, right in my own local area. They love their democracy and liberties as fiercely as we do, only the smallness of heart that has – somehow – developed Stateside has not yet infected them. I hope it never does. It does look, though, as if the majority of my fellow citizens really WANT to rise above that smallness. They’ve learned what it costs – the hard way. I’m very glad for my country.
I’m uninsurable back home. Here, I have total coverage (in and outpatient, meds, tests, the works), no extra costs, competent care, no exclusions and noncancellable – for less than $500 U.S. per YEAR. Eat your heart out.
“So H.B., couldn’t you like find some kind of service project that could help out, you know, Americans..?” Funny you should ask, since I just e-mailed the president to learn if a frail old woman who can hardly walk and lives abroad can help, um, AMERICANS. I would have when I still lived Stateside, but had neither the time or the means of doing so. And didn’t know WHAT I could do, either.
Vile language is eiher blasphemy or dirty words. Calling a gun-maven a gun-maven is only what a gun-maven IS – and they’re proud of it. That doesn’t mean I have to be. I do not need to be warm-fuzzy about bigots – they’re a skidmark on humanity. And the absolutists? They don’t deny they want a theocracy, or that their beliefs ARE absolutist, so why paper it over with a sweeter word? They DEMAND the right to put God into everything in America, force-feeding it to us, if need be.
The term “mob rule” in reference to Democrats reveals hate, bigotry and elitism. Pity people are so transparent. Democrats are not “the great unwashed,” even when some people still think they are. Like “tax-and-spend,” the GOP’s answer to that was “borrow trillions from hostile countries – and spend till you drop.”
And haters ARE the pimply backside – anywhere on the planet. The problem is that America is one place that shouldn’t be generating them. But it has. To our everlasting shame.
“And haters ARE the pimply backside – anywhere on the planet. The problem is that America is one place that shouldn’t be generating them. But it has. To our everlasting shame.”
Look in the mirror, H.B. I have read your posts and if they are not filled with hate, they come very close. Careful you don’t become that which you despise.
HB,
Please do me the courtesy of naming one constitutional right you have lost in the past eight years. Not the standard boilerplate, but an actual right that you had in 2000, but not today. I would also like to know what BO will do to restore this right. Thanks
Take your time, HB. I’ll check back in the morning.
Hey, thor,
Back in the day I developed a C2 system called CTAPS that’s been used to rain shock and awe on our enemies since (and including) Desert Shield. It’s only now being superceded by a better theater battle management system, and God bless that. You were probably pissing your pants around the time CTAPS came out, so no worries, you waste of oxygen.
So, FUCK OFF. I’ve been there. I’ve done that.
Nothing more to say, really, other than: Cocksucker!
Oh, and BTW, thor, you and Semanticleo, head buddies?
I mean, I can’t imagine you bumpin’ uglies, as it were, but the sewage pits you call “brains” are completely compatible.
Neither of you could be candid friends, not honest enemies.
Which, pity on you.
I didn’t ask you of your impression of their government’s commitment to the Iraq war.
Very specifically, are any of the Europeans who set foot in Iraq and died there considered pussies?
Of my Dad’s half-amputated leg from the Korea war, was his leg less heroic than the leg of a soldier in Iraq or that of any soldier in the more Hollywood-celebrated conflicts? Was his damaged leg more a more “pussified” leg than yours? Are the men who limped away from Iraq but who now reside in Poland more “pussy” than you?
C’mon, flag-pin smart guy, answer those fuckin’ questions of how to rank of “pussification” of dead soldiers and combat disabilities.
Go down to the V.F.W. much?
Thanks for serving, btw.
Seeing how you’re a hickbillie rethuglidum then you’ve also probably been in a men’s restroom stall energetically tapping your foot.
Nothin’ much I wanna hear from you with your mouth full, eh.
H.B. declared:
Being mildly familiar with an old story about an Emperor and his new clothing would help, for a start. Hint: just because someone is claimed to have “brains, balance and quality” doesn’t always mean he does.
HTH. HAND.
H.B continues with the gems with:
Oh, and you might wish to familiarize yourself with an old adage:
“With age, comes wisdom, but sometimes age travels alone.”
You started with one. Mighty clumsy of you.
Mexico? It is a truly beautiful country and there’s lots of great people there. But I wouldn’t call it a really viable democracy. And I’m far from alone in that.
Advisors to Obama say Mexico on verge of collapse
Mexico is only 8 years removed from the monolithic rule of the PRI, once the world’s longest reigning political party. Corruption rules the day in Mexico and the gap between the haves and the have-nots makes America’s poorest look like royalty. You live pretty well on your dollars, don’t you gringo?
“Oppressor”?
The guy who freed more slaves than Lincoln?
Fuck you. Fuck you and every goddamned piece of shit like you. I hope you never, ever, have to live under a government that truly qualifies as an “oppressor”, though God knows that would be your just reward for vilifying a man a million times better than you.
Jesus. Where’d this “H.B.” douche come from? Got a hot flash for you, fuckstick: G.W.B. was no opperssor. And nothing like that horror that is coming, thanks to ignorant shitstains like yourself. Name ONE thing the last administration did that caused you any constitutional grief. Four years from now, we’ll all be cryin’.
Why should it come as any surprise, HB, that if you sow vitriol, you’d reap it?
I’d attempt discourse with you, but it’s difficult to argue with self-righteous melodrama.
I will just give a big fat ditto to what Rob Crawford said, and will award the Twatwaffle of the Day award to … drumroll … H.B.
Pellegri – It is self-lefteous, which is a more pernicious type.
They recognize the well-deserved celebration of those black folks, recognize how hard their struggle has been (and still IS), and we thoroughly enjoy seeing the flat-out delight on a multitude of black faces. They’re more beautiful that way, too. I haven’t shared their travails, but I CAN enjoy watching their happiness.
You make it sound like you’re watching monkeys at the zoo H.B.
Al – In their world, being patronizing and condescending is a sign of how much they fucking care.
They’re more beautiful that way, too. I haven’t shared their travails, but I CAN enjoy watching their happiness.
YOu know, you could use this phrase to describe a newly shorn ballsack as well.
Oh, but he is, al. He is. He’s probably down in mexico, petting the little brownies on their heads. They so cute. When he stubs a toe, it’s golly gee willakers!
Thanks for that one, Al. You now owe me a new laptop.
Some serious screetching there, thor. You might want to hide less behind your Dad btw.
I don’t know why you are spraying vitriol about pussy soldiers/Euro war wounds or whatever. I said nary a word about anyone being a pussy or not. The guy in the field can get hurt fighting courageously, or he can get hurt drunkenly falling off a truck (see Germans). I’m not going to sit and rank wounds like some sort of VA clerk – I guess the answer in short would be, if you got hurt doing your job, and not running in terror or through negligence of your own or self-inflicted (4th Scots soldier in motor pool stabbing himself, for example) then it probably couldn’t be called anything other than honorably earned.
You really do need to seek some help with the angriness.
I am no longer a member of the VFW, I moved away from my old post. I have remained in the American Legion tho’.
Quit fucking crushing our dissent, H. B.
Our patriotic dissent, Slart. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Just above paying taxes, so I hear.
Oh, shit. Resubmit, humbly, as corrected by teh sithy guy.
I’m sure this thread is dead, but I do want to congratulate the new top comedian, H.B. (a little hat tip to H.D., there, my elderly female friend?).
Wow, the way you describe watching those “black faces,” the way you talk about all Mexicans as though the ones you’ve met are the exact same as every Mexican everywhere–it’s a comedy treat of irony! And your oozy pompous self-congratulation on how wonderful you are to have helped a few Mexicans who, I’m sure, are suitably grateful for your gracious intercession on their behalf–I haven’t seen a sendup like that since Mr. Dickens so deliciously skewered Mrs. Jellyby.
Keep on keeping on, H.B.! You may be old, but your act? EVER-YOUNG!
I’m betting that he gives the locals lots of unsolicited “advice”, and they respond by spitting in his cerveza at the cantina when he’s not looking.
‘Cause there’s nothing that a Mexicano likes more than being told what to do by an arrogant white hippie.