Talk about gratitude: We spend decades working the proles with promises and freebies - and a veiled religious justification - when a insurrection in a blue state on the other side of the continent stalls an entire supermajority. One day you’re lecturing from the microphone of virtual political tenure back home and the next you’re counting the last campaign’s receipts, considering a transfer into county management. I haven’t moved this fast since my political midnight cowboy first exited south Vegas for DC.
Speak it, my good man. I had a nation of muddy monosyllabic bikers without dental but with a healthy sense of entitlement manning the faithful furnaces of State until a handful of ewoks and this creaky old Castro-lookin’ freedom fighter show up. So first I’m slinging Lazarus around like a cheap Reagan caricature and then I’m berating this rabble from seventy feet when there’s this sudden twinge below the collarbone. Then it’s three and a half seconds of weightless anxiety and, pow. Believe me, I’ve come to appreciate anew the notion of a safety net, senator.
Turns out that even with that roving eye, Mordor One has little team spirit. But you see his fiery visage hanging around the pool at Ceasars nursing a jalapeno Diablo, tell him I’m still down with the cause but need better flight control, yeh?
Three and a half seconds? Dude, I had until lunch to finally get the power turned off and how shall I say, slip into something more aerodynamic. Now that’s liberty.
Comment by JHo on 11/4 @ 11:49 am #
With due apologies to Mr. Goldstein…and pretty much everyone else too.
Comment by Joe on 11/4 @ 11:49 am #
Please please please, epic fail for Harry Reid in Nevada.
Oh ye Nevada Deseret Mormons, rise up. Reid is really not a good Mormon. You can do better. Dump him.
Comment by sdferr on 11/4 @ 11:57 am #
Curse you JHo for attempting to make me click on a Frank Rich column, you cunning bastard you. I outfox’t you though; I recollected there are no areodynamics in a vacuum and slipped his grasp.
Comment by Kresh on 11/4 @ 12:09 pm #
As if that were his only fault. Besides, good Mormon =/= fiscal or political conservatism. I wish they were related, but they aren’t.
Comment by dicentra on 11/4 @ 12:49 pm #
I watched Two Towers and Return of the King over the weekend.
Powerful stuff. One must contemplate how Rohan and Gondor reflect what happens to a civilization in decline, and how it is ill-prepared to wage an existential war (let alone win one) unless you’ve got the souls of the guilty dead and a woman in drag to tip the scales in your favor.
And a halfling with a bit-off finger.
Reid is really not a good Mormon
I cannot comment on his standing in the church (because I have nothing to go on), but his behavior in the Senate is pretty despicable even after you subtract out his political positions. IMAO, No Good Mormon would behave like that.
Or if they did, they’d keep it secret, the way the others do.
Comment by Joe on 11/4 @ 1:43 pm #
dicentra, I do not know Harry Reid’s standing as a member the LDS Church, and my comment was intended to be humorous as opposed to serious, but if I can persuade a few of your members to give him the boot in Nevada…well that is okay.
And actually this character is more akin to Harry Reid.
Comment by Joe on 11/4 @ 1:49 pm #
dicentra, amazing how those Maine Mormons blocked same sex marriage again.
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Comment by John53 on 11/4 @ 3:09 pm #
Hey don’t insult the emperor or Saruman both of those characters were no where near as clueless as “Dirty Harry” Reid. They also displayed a little intelligence, and creditability, something Harry can’t even spell.
Comment by RON on 11/4 @ 3:22 pm #
Me thinks thou doest do a lame injustice to the minions of mordor, such a lowly comparison indeed a drab bout of swine flu would have stood in better stead.
Comment by B Moe on 11/4 @ 3:27 pm #
Unbelievable.
Comment by DarthRove on 11/4 @ 3:33 pm #
I wouldn’t be surprised if Gibbsy were thinking, “Yeah, this’ll show those flyover rednecks how ‘down wid it’ My Holy Lord Obama is. He was actually watching what I’m sure was the Most! Popular! HBO! Documentary! Ever! in the History! of History! Itself!!!”
Assuming, of course, that Gibbs can express thoughts more complex than, “Just swallow. Just swallow. It’ll be over soon.”
Comment by Matt on 11/4 @ 3:33 pm #
Further reported “After finishing the HBO special, the Divine Black Jesus sacrificed a goat and two chickens to himself on a nearby altar.”
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 11/4 @ 3:40 pm #
Well done, JHo. I love impressions.
Comment by sdferr on 11/4 @ 3:47 pm #
From the Ceci N’est Pas Une Pipe files, we have Syrian Foreign minister Wallid Moallem offering “Weapons? Those are not weapons. There are no weapons.”
Comment by dicentra on 11/4 @ 3:47 pm #
amazing how those Maine Mormons blocked same sex marriage again.
Tireless, I tells ya, tireless.
We’re everwhere, WE’RE EVERYWHERE!
Comment by Joe on 11/4 @ 6:13 pm #
dicentra, you Mormons are great, just please, no Twilight references.
Although do Mormons really get all sparkley?
Comment by SBP on 11/4 @ 6:18 pm #
It seems that Mormons aren’t immune to a well-known cross-cultural phenomenon: that subset of (insert group) that makes up the political class represents the very worst of (group).
Orrin Hatch is a world-class asshat, too.
I don’t actually have anything concrete against Mitt Romney, but I don’t think I’d buy a used car from the man.
Comment by Roland THTG on 11/4 @ 6:32 pm #
I dunno B Moe, seems pretty believable to me.
Only question is what was he doing while he was watching…..Himself?
Creepy in a creepy kind of way.
Comment by SBP on 11/4 @ 6:35 pm #
19: I suspect that KY Jelly was involved, and maybe a blowup doll of himself.
Comment by Squid on 11/4 @ 6:44 pm #
But KY is so…common. Surely our Hawaiian Jesus has something more upscale.
What’s the personal lubricating equivalent of Wagyu?
Comment by geoffb on 11/4 @ 7:54 pm #
There was some mix up about what Gibbs said.
Comment by geoffb on 11/4 @ 7:57 pm #
Doesn’t mean he didn’t but he had already seen it before August 4th.
Comment by geoffb on 11/4 @ 8:02 pm #
One further thing. Since this was an untaped event, the WH supplied the transcript, and how they feel about Fox News… Lets say if I were Fox I’d have tape going on everything.
Comment by dicentra on 11/4 @ 8:35 pm #
please, no Twilight references.
On behalf of Mormons everywhere, I apologize for the series’ existence. We try so hard to keep the wimmin down, and then one up and writes a book from inside the
prisonkitchen God intended for her.Comment by SBP on 11/4 @ 9:17 pm #
What’s the personal lubricating equivalent of Wagyu?
Maybe saffron- and truffle-infused walnut oil mixed with balsamic vinegar?
Comment by SBP on 11/4 @ 9:19 pm #
Oh, dicentra. I had no idea that POS was written by a Mormon. I’m sorry.
Comment by Darleen on 11/4 @ 10:09 pm #
dicentra
take heart, at least you still have Zenna Henderson.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 11/4 @ 10:10 pm #
If The Lost Dog is reading, ask the library for their job-hunting resources. Unless they’re way out in the boonies, they ought to have more than just the Sunday classifieds and Monster dot com.
Comment by Joe on 11/4 @ 10:57 pm #
dicentra, take heart, Browning makes a hell of a rifle. Now that is a Mormon product you can be proud of.
Now can someone explain to me how those Bronx Mormons managed to derail the Phillies?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/4 @ 11:03 pm #
I got to page 16 of not Twilight but the one after that. God it was dreck. I think she ruined vampires. Whose gonna watch that CW vampire shit? The same people who didn’t go see that Vampire’s Assistant crap? Probably. It’ll take a full-scale Buffy remake to resurrect vampires at this point. Otherwise put a stake in them.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/4 @ 11:04 pm #
*who’s* I mean… I think that makes twice this week… this is what happens when you read Twilight books I think
Comment by Joe on 11/4 @ 11:11 pm #
cheer up dicentra!
Comment by SBP on 11/4 @ 11:12 pm #
at least you still have Zenna Henderson.
She was awesome. It’s been way too many years since I read those.
Comment by SBP on 11/4 @ 11:13 pm #
WordPerfect used to be pretty good, too. As was Novell.
I don’t know if those were Mormon products, but I remember they both came out of Utah.
Comment by Darleen on 11/4 @ 11:32 pm #
SBP
in ‘95 there was a hardcover reissue of all of her stories “Ingathering”. I have it. My old paperbacks had gone yellow and crumbly.
I love those stories.
Comment by SBP on 11/4 @ 11:34 pm #
I’ll have to look for it, Darleen. I must’ve been in junior high the last time I read those stories.
Joe: don’t forget this fine piece of equipment.
Comment by Darleen on 11/4 @ 11:36 pm #
happyfeet
if Tom Cruise couldn’t ruin vampires after being cast as Lestat (good god Anne Rice had written the character with Rutger Hauer in mind) nothing can.
Vampires will just slide off popularity for a while then come back.
Comment by Darleen on 11/4 @ 11:36 pm #
SBP
http://www.amazon.com/Ingathering-Complete-People-Stories-Henderson/dp/0915368587/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257398992&sr=1-1
there you go!
Comment by happyfeet on 11/4 @ 11:40 pm #
that’s true… I had a friend that did Lestat for Halloween this year. I’d kind of forgotten about Mr. Lestat.
Comment by SBP on 11/4 @ 11:46 pm #
Thanks, Darleen. Added to cart.
Don’t forget Brad Pitt!
I remember watching that movie with some friends and cracking everyone up by saying, in a faux-suprised voice, “I’m starting to think this movie has homoerotic overtones”.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/4 @ 11:46 pm #
NTTAWWT
Comment by SBP on 11/4 @ 11:52 pm #
Oh, Kirsten Dunst played the little girl vampire in that movie. I hadn’t realized.
Probably because she hadn’t developed those special talents that made her so memorable in later films.
Comment by donald on 11/5 @ 7:32 am #
Novell, man.
Comment by TheGeezer on 11/5 @ 7:51 am #
The legend of the Netware (v 3.11) server: accidentally bricked up behind a wall, a Novell server ran for two years before power was cut off by an ice storm that downed utility wires in the neighborhood.
Trying that with NT was not possible.
They make good stuff in Utah.
Comment by Pablo on 11/5 @ 8:26 am #
Wha? Vampires is hot again.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/5 @ 8:33 am #
After reading several comments from happyfeet pounding away on DeMint and Brownback and Santorum I feel the need to include this quote from Lindsay Graham opining about NY - 23.
This, I think, is not a helpful comment from the immigration and Gaia burning pimping RINO.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/5 @ 8:34 am #
Oops — Linky.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/5 @ 8:39 am #
Because, you know, rather than actually attempt to persuade voters that Conservative/Classical Liberal principles are right and necessary under the current “let’s turn America into Europe” narrative we should, instead, carefully consider who might be a-scared of too much righty stuff or too much lefty stuff and sidestep into an electable middle that exists only in Graham’s little RINO brain.
Principles over party? Bah! Only losers take that approach. DEMOCRAT-LITE! WE’RE CHEAPER TOO! (h/t Ric Locke)
Would it be intolerant and politically treasonous of me to suggest purging Lindsay Graham?
Comment by geoffb on 11/5 @ 9:33 am #
The “purging Lindsay Graham”.
An ABC After-school Special on the menace of bulimia in Washington DC.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 11/5 @ 9:34 am #
Speaking of vampires, the southern end of this northbound vampire was pretty easy to look at.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/5 @ 9:36 am #
I think I would be content to consider all the points of the compass on that one, SW. ;-)
Comment by Silver Whistle on 11/5 @ 9:41 am #
You can get an amen, Brother BJ.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/5 @ 11:58 am #
Thandie Newton was in that, too? Cool.
I lurv me some SDOKB.
Comment by JD on 11/5 @ 12:15 pm #
Silver whistle rocks, BTW.