Here’s an idea: put down the cameras long enough to stop filming your own ostentatious, self-serving sanctimony and write a freakin’ check.
If you want to play rubber-suited gimp in a masochism fantasy, try hiring a bonded dominatrix by the hour like the rest of us regular folk.
It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness.
People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we’re compassionate we’ll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.
It’s not the giving that’s important: it’s the appearance that you really really really want to, if just somebody will use the power of government to force your hand.
Ggah.
Cain / Jillette 2012
The MBM already claims Cain is a black faced minstrel performing for his massas for votes. Might as well go the full vaudeville.
Cain-Teller feels just as good. Teller’s a sharpie.
Appearances way count. Force is cool. But morality under pain of law? Teh boss.
Especially to the character disordered.
“Freedom” includes the freedom to starve to death if you’re a lazy, useless bastard. I have no moral imperative to help you if you refuse to even try to help yourself.
Valuing the appearance of doing good as opposed to actually doing good?
Didn’t somebody a long time ago say something about that? Guy’s name escapes me right now.
These are the “perception is reality” morons that pomo has created.
Good think we have Frum on our side.
Oh wait, maybe Frum is part of the Axis of Idiots.
I try to catch P&T’s act every couple of years (going back to the 80s). I like them a lot. Penn is a straight shooter.
I hate Penn. He’s an atheist. Ya’ll are going to hell.
I’M KIDDING! QUIT LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT!!
Just imagine, a person who inherited her wealth – probably didn’t struggle and invest and risk a dime – thinks she should be taxed more to help the 99%.
I’ve got a great idea – if you did nothing to earn that money, and you just so terribly – do us all a favor and GIVE IT ALL AWAY. It will absolve you of all your sins.
That people who inherit their money feel that people who EARNED it (and probably went through many, many lean years)or somehow the same as them … makes me want to puke.
I knew rich kids – those who inherited everything; most every one of them is utterly useless, and the majority are soft in the head.
An OT heh.
There’s my moderator.
David Frum is a Clark Clifford Republican. The hell with him.
Romney and McCain have both today said issued statements saying Obama deserves the credit for Ghadaffi’s death.
Apparently, going around Congress is okay if you like the outcome.
Ends justify the means. No, I don’t think I can pull the lever for Romney. I did for McCain last time, but only because I hoped that might pave the way for Palin when McCain was forced to step down for beating a staffer with a slipper.
President Teller
speaks softly and carries a big sticksays nothing at all and kills anyone he wants to, Congress be damned!.“David Frum is a Clark Clifford Republican. ”
so are mittens and mccain
“I think it reflected negatively on Perry. … I think Mitt handled himself well,” Cain said, commenting that Romney was trying to have a “civil conversation.”*
More and more everyday I think it’s becoming more and more likely Cain is just running to be Romney’s veep.
He’ll have well and truly ass-fucked America if that’s his game I think. It’s very disheartening and it makes it very difficult to work up any enthusiasm for him.
Link
“More and more everyday I think it’s becoming more and more likely Cain is ”
a former supporter of mittens in 2008.
I don’t really like his snotty attitude towards Mr. Governor Perry either. I wouldn’t mind it so much but he’s always fawning over Wall Street Romney like he has some kind of schoolgirl crush.
“snotty attitude towards Mr. Governor Perry”
ricky perry isn’t a very good public speaker at least in a debate format.
no he’s not but he’s been a capable governor and he’s governed as much in accord with Tea Party principles as just about anyone you can name
and Cain just wants to piss all over him
I don’t really see what that accomplishes.
“and Cain just wants to piss all over him”
mr ricky was acting rudely towards mittens at the debate. so i wouldn’t read too much into the hermanator’s comments.
From #19 – University of California
wtf? isn’t the UC system a public university? how is it making partisan political contributions? or is this some private foundation associated with but independent of the university?
either way, if I was an alumni, i’d be pissed.
but i did enjoy ricky getting into the mittens face and mitten’s reaction to it.
@25
“These tables list the top donors to these candidates in the 2012 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization’s PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals’ immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.”
well yes you are right Mr. Governor Perry got testy – but that was after Wall Street Romney lied and lied for weeks about Perry’s positions
but it was retarded for Perry to lash like that out on immigration – he needed to focus on jobs and spending and rolling back regulations and growth
he can’t hate spics as viciously and convincingly as Wall Street Romney and Cain, no matter how hard he tries – cause that’s just not how he rolls
#27 – Ah, I see. Thank you for the clarification.
Also, actually sort of on topic – Penn Jillette may be an atheist but he is pointedly respectful and complimentary towards believers; in that respect he is the antithesis of pretty much everyone else in the mainstream media culture.
I can’t blame anyone that would refuse to vote for Romney.
If Cain lost the nomination to Romney,and then agreed to be a TEA Party write in campaign candidate, a la that Alaska chic(Mercowsky?), people would say he’s a sneaky, self interested turncoat who’s only doing it because he wants Obama to win ‘cuz of the racism, but I’d be receptive to the idea.
“but that was after Wall Street Romney lied”
yes he’s a mormon baracky but smiles when he lies
I can’t blame anyone that would refuse to vote for Romney either in fact they are welcome to join me for tasty pancakes.
Re: #12
bh, you’re a prince among lesser men, that recipe is to die for.
OT: Jonah explains why sending troops to Uganda is actually a Good Thing:
Wow.
If this is accurate, then I have to agree: We (the rest of the world) dropped the ball on the Hutu/Tutsi slaughter. We can’t ignore this monster, too.
Off topically, have any of you all read Codevilla’s new essay The Lost Decade at Claremont? I haven’t yet, but from the looks of the first paragraph, it’s a challenger:
“We can’t ignore this monster, too.”
why is this our problem?
oh @35 look @34
“We (the rest of the world) dropped the ball on the Hutu/Tutsi slaughter. ”
yea “we” dropped the ball on pol pot, idi amin, stalin, che, castro, kim il nk, mao…
– Say what you will, I have to believe there are some Mullahs in Tehran who feel a good deal less secure than they did 24 hours ago.
We and the rest of the world didn’t drop the ball on the Hutu/Tutsi slaughter; the French organized the whole thing.
“Just imagine, a person who inherited her wealth – probably didn’t struggle and invest and risk a dime – thinks she should be taxed more to help the 99%.”
Not a fan. I don’t think she is either conservative, republican or libertarian. However, the article indicates she is down there to report on them, not join them.
Time Magazine Violates the Double Standard
That overhead squealing you hear are airborne porcines.
yea “we” dropped the ball on pol pot, idi amin, stalin, che, castro, kim il nk, mao…
This monster is small enough potatoes that we can stop him without breaking a sweat. Not so of the rest, especially Mao and Stalin.
If it turns out that Obama has an ulterior motive in this, then I’ll summarily withdraw my support.
Nope, too red.
T.Vokoun is turning out to be pretty stingy though maybe only just barely a 1%er; the Flyers, on the other hand, have adopted an open net policy.
“This monster is small enough potatoes that we can stop him without breaking a sweat”
coming from presumably a citizen of a bankrupt country that’s mighty fine of you. what’s uganda’s problem in not taking lra out?
is lra causing spookey dude problems:
yes we can
Link
that’s a very very narrow lens Codevilla is looking through
is my first impression
the degradation of America encompasses far far more than just foreign policy and military whatnot and silly homeland security shenanigans
hello
berkeley
“that’s a very very narrow lens Codevilla is looking through”
jen the rube and the boys at commentary share the view codevilla skewers. ymmv
Soros and the “Responsibility to Protect” is behind it?
Crap. I withdraw my support.
Jonah? WTF?
He doesn’t rule out the further loss of American identity throughout our politics hf, and though he doesn’t go into it much here, the seeds of the analysis are obviously present — besides foreign policy and national security issues being his predominant interest, the article’s already pretty long.
Romney and McCain have both today said issued statements saying Obama deserves the credit for Ghadaffi’s death.
Well, I haven’t heard their statements .. so they did, of course, also give Bush credit that Gah-daffy no longer had nuke and chemical programs because he saw what happened to Saddam ..
Right?
are you sure he’s not just recasting the old blah blah blah about asymmetrical warfare and its attendant frustrations?
I will need to read more carefully later. But I did read far enough to check to see if he acknowledged Mr. President Bush’s extreme reluctance to create the failshit gay-assed Department of Homeland Security.
He didn’t.
In the main, it gists to me as a sketch of our eagerness to overspend to salve our (unnecessarily) guilty consciences, right across the board. Once admirable American can-do-it-ism, making efficiencies work for us, has been abandoned to absurdly complex yet still morally ambiguous bureaucratism.
you can’t plant me in your penthouse I’m going back to my plow
Jeez Jeff, your dominatrix is bonded? I’m pretty sure mine doesn’t even carry Contractor’s General Liability. But I think she enjoys her job ’cause she works for tips. She gives whole new meaning to “give ’til it hurts”! ‘Course she might work cheap because she looks a lot like Penn Jillette..
“I’m going back to my plow”
please check epa dust rules before doing so.
so
goodbye
yellow
prick
toad
that was clever Mr. guins
“My gosh, he is certainly one of us far more so than Barack Obama. Raised in Hawaii and going to a private school, an expensive private school,” economist Thomas Sowell said on FOX Business.
– Yes, well Mr. Sowell can just forget about any invites as keynote speaker at Dem gatherings after that little display of sneaking off the reservation.
The leader of the movement to try terrorists in civilian court while Bush was doing just that with Saddam has now proudly claimed responsibility for the assasinations of Bin Ladin and Qhadafi.
What was that thing his preacher said about chickens coming home to roost?
Some of the most loyal water carriers are beginning to grumble about Dear Leader.
sdferr, that paper is disturbing but he has a point.
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SurveyUSA headlines
18 point difference between home phone and cell phone on NJ Gov Christie
12 point difference between home phone and cell phone on Obama job approval
21 point difference between home phone and cell phone on Obama favorability
9 point difference between home phone and cell phone from seven 2010 elections
I would hope Rasmussen would recreate this research and if it is confirmed include it in their methodology, SurveyUSA says 13% of adults are cell phone only.
Wait, one more.
38 point difference between home phone and cell phone on legalizing marijuana.
Well, I guess it won’t change the “likely voter” numbers.
Genderist.
Gender is optional these days.
NO LABELS!!
? How much are those(sweater)pu-ppies in the win-dow ?