Just thought I should remind you.
— Oh. And I think now’s a good time to watch Brazil, if you haven’t yet done so.
You’ll thank me later.
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Once we’re all government workers, can we just do away with elections altogether? I like my Tuesdays to be uncomplicated.
Baracky’s media is getting ready to elect a socialist. Me I’m voting against Baracky’s media.
If O! wins, we’ll need PW more than ever. So, there’s that.
There is no “you.” There is only the State.
OBEY!
I wonder exactly why Baracky wants to be Rick Moran’s president so bad though? He hasn’t shown any aptitude for accomplishment. I just find it curious is all.
That’s what I’ve been trying to tell ’em but they just won’t listen, “that stuff what you Gov. guys thought was my stuff that wasn’t my stuff it was yours all along so why’re you trying to get blood out of an empty stone here go tax yourselves fer cryin out loud!”
I was wondering if, in the new spread the wealth regime, I might be allowed to substitute possessions for cold cash. I have an expensive guitar and two laptops that just might bring me honor and glory when the redistributionists come around and demand I cough up a portion of my “luck.”
How much is it worth if I cook them a really nice dinner? Maybe that and my wife presents an autographed copy of Martha Stewart’s new book. Would that be enough?
Baracky simply wants power. I had a deep thought (for me ) moment earlier today about liberals and their policies that NEVER FUCKING get the result they want. I was thinking of Jenny Granholm (and all the Michigan liberals) who HAVE to know by now that their tax tax tax policy is a huge failure. Being the party of the UAW is a loser too. You know how many union jobs we’re going to lose in the coming weeks? But, they can’t back out, because then Jenny won’t get that cushy job from her liberal friends once she term limits out. She’s got to be a true believer till they end.
She doesn’t give a shit. No one is going to hold her accountable for what she’s done to Michigan.
You will be assimilated, Carin. Resistance is futile.
I guess I’ll wait ’til Wednesday to find out if I have to pack for “re-education camp”.
if they were 7 of nine-fine
but bama-lama-ding dong would steer more to the dalleks
exterminate!
O!’s logic is undeniable(unless you are capable of independent thought)!
There’s this:
http://www.zogby.com/main.htm
Pollster John Zogby: “Is McCain making a move? The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama today, 48% to 47%. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all. “Obama’s lead among women declined, and it looks like it is occurring because McCain is solidifying the support of conservative women, which is something we saw last time McCain picked up in the polls. If McCain has a good day tomorrow, we will eliminate Obama’s good day three days ago, and we could really see some tightening in this rolling average. But for now, hold on.”
Jeff, are you sayin’ you can fix the air conditioning in our Ministry-appointed dwellings?
Or are you saying we should just submit to the lobotomy?
Nah, he ain’t gonna win but it will be closer than it should be in any sane world.
O! come now, Carin! It’s the FATCATS what done it, not dear, sweet Jenny. Besdes, Sarah Palin speaks in tongues!
Those selfish, unpatriotic, lucky FATCATS who never shared any toys in elementary school or their girlfriends in high school.
I don’t know, Sam was a hapless protagonist and look how he turned out. Let’s just say that if the characters “27B” ever turn up on pw, we’re all going away.
Carin
But it’s never the fault of the Leftist/socialist/proggressive ideology. The ideology is PERFECT.
It’s people like you and me and JeffG and N O’Brain and JHoward and maggie and SarahW and et al… WE are the problem. McCain and Palin are the problem. The reporters tossed off Barry’s plane who work for newspapers that refused to endorse King Barry the Good are the problem. FoxNews and talk radio are the problem. Cato and Heritage and NRO are the problem.
If Barry and Ayers can just get rid of us, it will be all rainbows and unicorns. Human beings are perfectable, espcially if you can just sweep all the defective ones into
deathwork and reeducation camps.Fairness Doctrine, Darleen. Watch for it at a newstand near you.
It opens…it opens…it opens as soon as Pelosi the Wise and Reid the Dingy can find new reams of fresh, white paper.
Once we’re all government workers, can we just do away with elections altogether? I like my Tuesdays to be uncomplicated.
Maybe we can get some extra Monday holidays out of the deal.
JHoward
We’d be lucky if it were only the “Fairness” Doctrine. Be ready for Caracas on the Potomac
Can’t make a socialist paradise without cracking a few skulls and scrambling a few brains.
Do we get the Hollywood “happy ending” version of Brazil,Or the version where only Sam Lowry was happy in the end?
Terrorist plumbers anyone?
What you mean “we,” pie-demanding man?
I dunno Darleen. I was thinking- what motivates people? No one (hardly) would risk their future by stepping outside of their party upon realizing that their ideologies are a failure. Jenny’s raised taxes and sided with the unions … she’s gotten just about everything she’s wanted. Any reasonable person would come to the realization that it’s just a failure.
But, what can you then do? NOTHING. Jenny’s two years away from retirement, and she’s gonna need some sweet cushy job. It’s not the time to make enemies, and she certainly can’t make friends with the other side. Too late.
OH, just in from Detroit from my “sources” … Monica Conyers is gonna go to jail. Ha.
25 million Humpty Dumpties is going to make one mother of an government cheese omelet.
Oh yea, of little faith! Didn’t tell you McCain would win the primary when no one thought he would?
He’s gonna win my sweet conservative friends.
Get ready to party.
RW- if/when he doesn’t win, we’re coming after you first.
I made up 100 signs “STOP OBAMA’S SOCIALISM” and started giving them out to people who want them … they are very popular.
Nothing would thrill me more than to see this become an artifact of history on Weds.
Nothing would distress me more than to start feeling like I’m in some Orwell or Rand novel, with a dash of Gilliamesque bizarritude mixed in.
There was some video of the crowd after a Palin rally, whining something like “no arab in the white house post 9/11.” Presumably referring to Obama, not like, oil sheiks that might visit whichever president. It wasn’t pleasant to see. The reaction of wonder and dismay that this evoked wasn’t pleasant either. But then, you get to thinking, if Obama wins, these morons get the demons they deserve. So its not so bad, really. If Obama wins.
There was some video of the crowd after a Palin rally, whining something like “no arab in the white house post 9/11.â€Â
Link?
Oh, right: you’re a liar.
i stand for thee-i lie
therefore
if i bend over normals and cry-“link from the mod squad’
or-‘peggy lipton-noonan-tea”
do u believe me…
or if i went all yogi-fied and bent sideways whilst drinkin white wine and said-“the sheriff is near’/ sound goldilocks about right?
cuz i’m into room temperatures-
hurry up wenesday/hurry up u hump
cuz it ain’t the bending i got probs with-it’s the ‘straightening’
the hypnotized never lie…do ya!
pipe time!
piper time come tuesday
It’s always a good time to watch Brazil.
i googs brazil
big country-right?
south by southie-right?
seems they got a mardi-gras-less hurricane-right?
pack the dependants in the vehicle..
[no-honey-lets take the jeep/thing]
and awaaaay we go….
This is all so sad; the electorate has been hacked up like a fryer chicken, and nobody gets the secret coating.
Have you ever seen Brazil? It seems like you have, since you mention it, but it’s hard to imagine someone with your politics enjoying it, since Terry Gilliam was making fun of you. Not liberals – you.
Seriously: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/06/entertainment/main2071659.shtml
The director of the movie you like thinks it fits with American neo-conservatism. You’re free to think whatever you want about it, but every time you watch it, remember that the man who directed it hates your politics and thinks you’re a fool.
ps – At least you’ve got Starship Troopers
See that whole bitter clinger thing just gets more and more ironic.
remember that the man who directed it hates your politics and thinks you’re a fool.
Someone’s a fool here, all right, but it’s not us.
I have the Criterion super edition of Brazil. I’ve watched it many times. You know Stoppard was involved in the screenplay, right?
Another one to pop in is Joe Vs. the Volcano.
Oh. And start reading your Kafka, too.
— But not you, Deroman. That stuff is well beyond the paygrade of someone who thinks Gilliam / Stoppard, et al. were making fun of people like most of the readers here, who are actual liberals of the classical variety, not little progressive fascists who have adopted the label and who are carrying the Buchananite vote this election cycle.
Congrats on that, by the way!
terry gollum
wasn’t he the really ugly python dude?
jumbo shrimp
i mean-didn’t he put that space-ship shit in life of brian and make me forward fast?
didn’t he dis-appear afta brazil
like
give me money-i’m the ugly python[integrity]
baron munc-hausen?
what that cost?
buh-bye
Putney Swope
If comedy is any indication, Maverick just won the election.
Barry is just not funny.
You watching SNL too, Pablo?
Yeah, the opening was great.
Yeah, SBP. Affleck as Olberdouche is kinda funny too.
Mrs. Precious Perfect. Heh.
Affleck is tearing his ass up. Whoda thunk?
Just a reminder, folks – spring forward, fall back. So before you turn in tonight, remember to set your clocks back to say, 1931…
springtime 4 hitler?
bling time for himmler?
if i told u i had no gold in my teeth-
wouldn’t u believe me?
at least take those pliers out of ur hands…
[btw-cool gloves]
can’t we all get along?
let’s both beat rodney king…huh..
let’s make a deal…
or a sequel
Hitler
He only had one ball.
Goering
Had two but very small.
Himmler
Was somewhat sim’lar,
But Goebbels
Had no balls
At all!
I think this post-deployment exhaustion is getting to me… I rather enjoyed a couple of pd’s posts…
I remember seeing Brazil and when we all came out of the crowded theater, it was dead silent…the folks who were waiting for the next show were looking at us with quite perplexed expressions. I think I drank alot after seeing that flick.
“getting ready to elect a socialist?” Nope, McCain may be a liberal Republican, but he is no socialist.
“Link?
Oh, right: you’re a liar.â€Â
It was on talking points memo. You really want me to find it? It’s not that important. Find some other supporter of whatever candidate doing something stupid.
OH, on Talking Points Memo! Why didn’t you tell us. Yes, find it or stfu.
Hey, I saw someone who saw a video of O saying he hates white people, and he’s gonna make ’em pay for making fun of his ‘fro back in college. Link? Well, find it yourself. RACIST.
BTW, are you the meya that comments on my blog? Of course, THAT meya hides behind an anon screen name.
Actually, Tideland really stunk and as of it, Gilliam clearly lost his ability to distinguish.
Brazil? It’s all about authoritarianism and beyond that, the mindset it depends on. I understand Barry’ll be funding a national domestic military – in direct contravention of the US Constitution, as I recell — to the same level as national defense. And all the Democrats go do, do-do, do-do….
Sorry, Deroman, shallow stereotyping leaves me less than convinced. As therefore do you. To grasp with the power they alone hold by keeping as many stupid and dependent folks stupid and dependent, the Democrat party routinely erects the universe’s largest strawmen. It’s big business, no, creating tens of millions of failures to vote their way, and this cycle brought an impressively-egoed and dishonest political insider with quasi-messianic leanings six tenths of a billion dollars (some of it legitimately) and with of it, within a black liberation theology hymnbook’s width of the White Office.
Neocon-baiting mildly amuses me. You’re so 2000 you can’t see the obvious as it bears down on you, fire belching out of the pipes.
SInce my income is going to be much lower soon, I look forward to getting some of Oprahs money when Black Jesus ascends the Throne. Maybe after he lowers the seas. I can be patient.
#37
So what you’re saying is I can’t enjoy the art unless I’m familiar with the artist?
Obvious politics aside, it was an extremely well crafted movie if taken just in the technical sense. As for the plot, it is the old ‘tyranny sucks’ done up in new threads. Nobody likes tyranny, right?
Fat Man is on to something with his suggestion of Putney Swope, perhaps most of all in the mass marketing/advertising aspect. There was a rumor floating about that a re-make is in the works. Can’t see it happening in this media climate myself but then who knows. Stranger things may happen.
Plumbers won’t fill out the paperwork? Cindy McCain’s face will have a complication on its little complication? We’ll all drive ridiculously tiny cars? Ghosts in the machine? Shared office furniture? Bad sportsmanship? Christmas will be commercialized to ridiculous levels?
Nyeah, can’t happen. Just a crazed fantasy.
I like buying gift cards for the kids. Mostly cause you can send em to the parents kinda towards end of November and get that off your list. Wal-Mart, mostly. As long as they have video games that works I think.
The office people is getting cheese this year I think. Usually it’s alcohol but this year they’re getting cheese. No reason just wanted to do something different and cause I can get that sent here to the office and get that out of the way early too instead of waiting for awkward office gift day. I hate office gift day.
Except I think this year it would be prudent to check and make sure everybody on my list is a for real actual legal American. No sense buying presents if they’re just gonna have to be deported I think.
He’s gonna win my sweet conservative friends.
Get ready to party.
It won’t be a party. It will be like winning a sandwich with only one turd on it, as opposed to a double-decker.
Ok Mr. Glass Half Empty. McCain will be out of the Senate. I have dreamed muchly of this day.
Cheese, huh. My grandpa send me some pears for Christmas a few years back. Those were the best fucking (expletive needed, ’cause I don’t think you guys will believe me w/o some sort of extreme word here) pears. Ever.
Is it going to be gruyere, Happy? You know, I’m a fan of Saga. NOrmally I don’t care for blue cheese, but Saga. Yumn.
This Gateway post, with audio, on Obama’s Cap and Trade positions — at least as of last January (I don’t know whether Obama has moved further toward or farther away from this position since then, but given his propensity to craft what he says on any given day to the desires of the audience with which he is speaking, nothing he may have said since contradicting this would surprise) — intimates the sort of quasi-socialist program Obama believes he knows will fix us. The hubris he exhibits is frightening:
For more on Cap&Trade vs CarbonTax see Lynne Kiesling at Knowledge Problem Blog here (with many outward bound links included). For a pro-Cap&Trade position see American Center for Progress article here. For an anti-Cap&Trade position see Heritage Foundation article here.
Personally, I believe this sort of Obama hubris to be a metaphorical intentional economic murder. “Kill your economy? Yes we can!”
Carbon dioxide is a pollutant like Baracky is a for real pezzydent I think.
oh. The cheese is from Texas and it’ll mostly be cheddar and pepper jack I think cause that’s all they make really except for this soft German cheese. They’ll get some of that too. They’re shaped like Texas and Texasy things though.
Fixed that for him.
ps – At least you’ve got Starship Troopers
Oh my. I’m going to assume you mean the movie, and I seriously doubt you’ve ever actually read the book. I’m not even sure where to begin, it’s clear you don’t know that director specifically intended the movie to be antimilitary/anti-authoritarian propaganda. i could also go on about how badly he misread the novel, but am sure that would be pointless.
So instead just stop and ask yourself which candidate is currently proposing a new national service organization, one at least as large and as well funded as the current military?
Now consider what the director of Starship Troopers specifically states he was trying to convey in his movie
http://industrycentral.net/director_interviews/PV01.HTM
Yep that’s just what what we need – another authoritarian government entity, one made up out of whole cloth by your chosen one (can’t wait to see the uniforms!)
And you seriously think we’re the closet totalitarians?
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.
That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.
It is hard to overstate the stupidity of his followers. Ayers and the NEA must be stopped.
You know, I was really impressed when Evan Sayet came out with his whole thing about why Liberals are the way they are. He said that the left isn’t so nonsensical because they’re dumb, but because they have taken such a radical and absolutist position on the question of “discrimination” that they leave themselves in a position of being unable to judge even basic moral questions clearly.
Then again, when someone like “Deroman” posts, I have to fall back to the position that stupidity plays at least some part in it.
Though Sayet’s point is pretty clear – when Deroman is faced with the reality of Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean mass exterminations, and is given an opportunity to compare them to the US, they have to consider the US worse, because it wouldn’t be “fair” if China was always wrong. 100 million murdered or not.
So, basically, it may not be stupidity, but it’s effectively indistinguishable from stupidity.
She doesn’t give a shit. No one is going to hold her accountable for what she’s done to Michigan.
I knew I should have made up a bunch of bumper stickers ‘Vote Democrat; Make the rest of the country just like Michigan’. That may have been too subtle though.
Merovign, I would submit that in order to adopt “such a radical and absolutist position on the question of ‘discrimination’ that they leave themselves in a position of being unable to judge even basic moral questions clearly,” they do kind of have to be stupid. It’s not an alternative explanation, it’s a prerequisite.
Iron308- you shoulda. I would have bought one.
There’s some dude in town who is SO mad at Jenny’s he’s made a huge sign for the back of his pick-up. It’s kewel.
More Obama-manic nonsense, snagged here by way of Contentions Blog’s Jennifer Rubin:
This guy can sound like a real nutter sometimes.
McCain will be out of the Senate. I have dreamed muchly of this day.
Well, there’s something to be said for that; too bad Arizonans can’t seem to find anyone better to replace him with eh?
@74
All the more reason why state-sanctioned morning exercise will be mandatory if you want to keep your state provided healthcare.
Beggars can’t be choosers. Besides, it’s for your own good.
(But Barry gets an exemption for the smoking. And for doing bumps off of the seal in the O!val O!ffice. It’s good to be the king…)
That shit’s real. Baracky’s tribe banned new fast food restaurants here and they made it where all menus have to display warning labels. That’s step one.
“…our entire agricultural system is built on cheap oil.”
Obama told Time: “As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector …”
Time to go long on mules, sounds like.
Then there’s that Soylent Green thing. There’s that.