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Oh great. Now Americans have to apologize for being tall.
What the hell? I guess he’s not clear on the difference between reception and genuflection.
shoesine boy makes sandals sparkle!
i left off the h in shoeshine
for the savings
maybe Charles is having an episode
You all are so very gauche. Excuse me. I really must Tweet my disappointment at your awful gaucheness.
— Which you’ll never see. Because you are probably too gauche to Twitter.
I’m starting the twitter thing once I get my head around it I think. The thing about the Saudi royal whores I think though is they have really great taste in floor lamps.
Too Gaucho to Twitter….
I expected the contest to find such a clip and set the moment past which any distinction-drawing re: events depicted therein became unspeakable would be won by someone else. And sooner.
Was it? Charles’s hat-tip is opaque.
It is a contest. It matters who won it.
More than a few people on the right are screaming that Barack Obama should be impeached for bowing to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
Pshaw – any rational person knows Saudis don’t give medals to mere boys. Impeach Him.
I don’t get his point with the JFK picture at all. Definitely he’s having an episode I think. Gone a bit round the bend.
nothing gets a saudi king
a ring ting a tinging
like the sight on his doorstep
of a nice toned tricep
Okay, Johnson’s lost the fucking plot.
The pain of cognitive dissonance often results in bizarre ad hoc reasoning such as this.
Because you are probably too gauche to Twitter.
You righties are all the same, always insulting us lefties and all by way of your tell-tale codings. And just because it’s true doesn’t make it ok to say it, snif.
the goldstein commentators are gonna take over
twitter / cuz they’re so sharp and funny!
like…blogswarm..or..mass bike rides thru urban areas
that tie up traffic/and piss people off
like andy rooney said to pre-speed queen judy garland
let’s do it!
mickey rooney/ sorry- i know andy rooney only talks to
plates and distance
This nuance stuff is getting waaayyy out of hand.
One wonders: is this the only blog we’ll here this needed criticism from?
Okay, one doesn’t really wonder all that much.
One day my fingers will learn to spell.
I haven’t read any blogs literally screaming that Obama should be impeached for bowing to Abdullah, although I would imagine someone out there is stupid enough to say it.
That’s a mighty fine strawman Charles has erected there. Yep, mighty fine…
This is dumb enough we’d let a patsy run it out there then see how much punishment he took before we jumped into the fire. But we’re cynical.
Okay, I’ve looked around a bit now.
No one else is giving Charles shit for this.
Makes you wonder. What the fuck is going on in the background?
Bloggers can prove me wrong of course. Maybe I wake up tomorrow and Hot Air, Ace, and a few others mention this.
If not, well… I guess I’ll just assume they value hits over truth.
http://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/1459269014
Ooops! Did I just post that?
It’s almost like they tell the truth on twitter and lie on their own blogs.
As far as I can tell, Treacher is the only one who doesn’t make fun of us behind the scenes.
Gosh, who’d of thought.
I know, it’s shocking. Shocking!
Should you call it blogolist or twitolist?
RinoList.
Hey, did I mention, you can find two of Ace’s co-bloggers in that crowd?
Oops, did I just accidentally let that slip?
Very little surprises me any more.
Just imagine the emails. Makes you wonder what some of their better commenters would say if they knew the background bullshit.
Paging, Dr. Kaus…
That it is all pretty much what they’ve come to expect of the NYT and WaPo and Newsweek and TIME?
Yeah. That’s about right.
Charles Johnson needs to pull David Frum’s strap-on out of his bum and learn to pay attention.
Bush is bending down to receive a medal, obviously. Obama bowed to his superior. He is a disgrace to the office.
CJ did a wonderful public service in 2004 when he recreated the supposed “Killian memo” on MS Word and superimposed it over the version CBS posted as “evidence.” He’s made a fair amount of coin off that coup, and has done nothing of real note since.
Go ride a bike, jackass.
Adjoran, we’re past that. Now it’s all about echo chambers, left and right. And the folk who love them. Off to bed…
If you watch the video, you will see Bush leaning forwards so the Saudis can put a medal around his neck.
That’s not the same thing as bowing to royalty . . . not even close.
Yeh, CJ has been losing it for some time. He’s getting nuttier as his site slips down the rankings. I got banned from LGF (and have never been back) for defending Robert Spencer. This was at a time when Jihad Watch was only a small fish in comparison to LGF. Now I’m happy to see that JW is way ahead.
He has what I call “old man disease”, a curious stiffening of the powers of reason and pet-peeve nuttiness peculiar to aging men. Irony is, it’s what got Dan Rather.
What does “impeach it’s gas tanks” even mean?
I have never quite managed to figure out Charles’ MO with LGF and the constant tweeking and coding he does with it: Is LGF a news and events blog that dabbles in web design, or is it a web design sandbox that occasionally decides to be outrageously outraged when some snakehandler on a school board tries to get an intelligent design resolution passed?
I dipped my toe in, and then just sort of wandered off….
And then I read the LGF thread. Methinks the Head-Lizard-in-Charge needs a vacation.
Chuck performs Howard Hughes duty for Republicans, Balrog, wanted it or not. He’s an arteest, you know, focusing on the aggregate in that square of Santa Monica sidewalk he just pedaled over. Next: Friday night Nail in a Board.
Charles Johnson is becoming increasingly paranoic, anti-religious and mindlessly defensive. He closed down his ‘Lizard Lounge’ because he says that banned users were in there saying bad things about him, and it was costing him a lot. Funny, commenters on that thread say there was none of that..must be the cost thingy. PJM dropped him too.
That’ll be gone after CJ excises his comments and purges the obvious ‘troll’ of course.
Hmmmph. Hope CJ enjoys his coming sack-time with Andrew Sullivan.
If you search Obama+bowed+Abdullah in Google, you’ll find around 60,000 hits; if you search Bush+held+hands+Abdullah, there are more than 1,000,000.
Jesus. Did anyone else slog through the entire comments thread over there?
I did and came to the conclusion that “conservative” bloggers like Charles need a new internet acronym.
I’m thinking something like LLLFIME (La La La Fingers In My Ears). Or maybe IKYABWAI (I Know You Are But What Am I).
Take your resveratrol, guys. And those nanobots, whatever.
Charles definitely needs a vacation. And a martyr cookie.
Garlic, I hear that’s good for blood vessels.
Charles needs a retirement before he embarrasses himself Rather-style.
I was reading an ID thread at LGF on 12/6/08 and saw this comment..
I copied it to a .txt file; refreshed to get the permalink, and it had been excised, along with the commenter’s account.
That’s the LGF I avoid like the plague, nowadays.
I copied it to a .txt file; refreshed to get the permalink, and it had been excised, along with the commenter’s account.
Well, but…look how unreasonable it is. I mean he clearly says chuck CAN’T do something, right there in the second paragraph. The Chuck had no other option, his royal street cred was being challenged by this upstart.
serr8d
It is really sad because LGF was one of the first blogs after 9/11 that I commented enough at to be part of the “community”. And yes, I too stopped visiting regularly, especially in the threads when Charles started down his Godbotherer path. I was banned merely for disagreeing with Charles on the “I want Obama to fail” thing AND quoting him in a PW thread. Not a mean nor nasty thing about him personally.
He should just shut down LGF and go back to biking.
I don’t know what happened to Charles. I got banned for telling him he wasn’t a conservative and he ought to stop pretending. Apparently the first commandment of LGF is “Thou shalt not be critical of thine host”.
If you can’t take criticism, the blogosphere is not the place for you.
And get his carotids scraped.
I bet a feller could come around here and yell “FUCK YOU, JEFF!” all day long and not get banned.
It might even be expected after a while. Sort of a “HI, NORM!” routine, but with that ribald internet edginess.
Jeff runs the best blog on the ‘net, IMHO. I’ve only been reading blogs for, what, 3 or 4 years now? and haven’t yet found a better one.
(But don’t let that go to your head, Jeff.. )
PJM dropped him too.
Wasn’t he a part owner of PJM, along with Insty?
I got banned from LGF probably my first day commenting. Do not have a problem with the place or anything but they do ban very quickly over there.
I don’t think I say outrageous things, but perhaps I should test and see how long I’d last over there?
Look, it’s perfectly possible to be an agnostic, as Charles claims to be, and liberty-loving and to hold conservative views about property and government. If you include ‘classical liberals’ I’d say the proportion of atheists, agnostics, and secularized-though-infulenced-by- religious-heritage types grows larger still.
And I think its perfectly reasonable and rational to be skeptical of the pseudo-science of “official” ID ( which is full of cockamamie, and which is here to be distinguished from allowance of Creation consistent with science)
But Charles has gone stiff-brained and fallen prey to the crack-pottery of the profesional skeptic. By that I mean he sees what he wants to see.
He’s lost the ability to detect discrepancy faithfully.
Plus he’s crotchety.
Charles isn’t an agnostic. Charles is a hardcore atheist.
I’m an agnostic. I don’t believe in God and I don’t agree with teaching ID in schools, but I’m willing to listen to a reasonable argument. Because in listening, I might learn something, and if nothing else find a point of entry to logically refute a premise.
But hey, it’s his site. Let him slam the door in the face of everyone who knocks.
Also there’s that whole thing about mutually beneficial alliances and how “my way or the highway” tends to make them blow up, but okay.
Comment by SarahW on 4/6 @ 7:12 am #
“Charles needs a retirement before he embarrasses himself Rather-style.”
Too late. He really throws a tantrum when his own lizards don’t tow the line. Thin-skinned and tyrannical is no way to go through life, Charles. Talk about a god complex. Sheesh!
Charles got his street cred by exposing Dan Rather for doing the same type of thing he is doing now by intentionally mislabeling that picture. I guess Bush was supposed to make the Saudi play hippity-hop to get the medal around his neck.
Yeah, the ID guys are crazy but in a mostly harmless way. Belief or disbelief that Adam and Eve went around hiding dinosaur bones has little practical effect on anything. Obama is out funding Hamas and snuggling up to Hezbollah while driving the next ten generations into abject poverty and Charles is worried about a few nutters getting to teach something that most kids are smart enough to know is bunk. He needs to get his priorities straight because we will need the nutters to take back the government. Picking fights with them is not very productive given the dangers facing the Republic at this time.
Has Charles ever taken any responsibility for helping put creationists in power with his role in the 2004 election?
And why in the hell does Queeg feel compelled to defend Obama? Perhaps because they are alike in so many ways? Trying (futilely) to build “street cred” with the Democrats?
I think he so resented Sarah Palin that he wasn’t quite ready to see Obama in the hard light of reality. He wants to believe.
OT but does anyone here have any experience with an electric lawnmower? I have to buy a lawnmower this coming weekend and am wondering if one would be a possibility for a townhouse.
[T]he ID guys are crazy but in a mostly harmless way. Belief or disbelief that Adam and Eve went around hiding dinosaur bones has little practical effect on anything.
Christopher Hitchens recently published an article on this in Newsweek:
“Ken Mercer … has said that evolution is disproved by the absence of any transitional forms between dogs and cats. If any state in the American union gave equal time in science class to such claims, it would certainly make itself unique in the world (perhaps no shame in that). But it would also set a precedent for the sharing of the astronomy period with the teaching of astrology, or indeed of equal time as between chemistry and alchemy….”
“[Chairman of the Texas education board Don] McLeroy and his allies now say that they ask for evolution to be taught only with all its ‘strengths and weaknesses.’ But in this, they are surely being somewhat disingenuous. When their faction was strong enough to demand an outright ban on the teaching of what they call ‘Darwinism,’ they had such a ban written into law in several states.
It ain’t harmless, and it ain’t just believers who “want to be left alone to practice their faith.” It never is.
And if you think that kids are “smart enough” to know that astrology and alchemy, too, are bunk, so that teaching those alongside legitimate science would be “harmless” too … what percentage of adults read the former newspaper column, and take it seriously?
A town-house patch yard, small and level, is just about perfect for an electric mower.
A push mower is also good for small, level lawns.
Cool thanks.
(as in unpowered, rotary push mower)
I didn’t think those rotary push eggbeater mowers existed anywhere outside 50s suburban sitcoms, but I saw one at Home Depot the other day. Cheap, too.
Mr. Pink-
We tried one once. It’s been several years and it was a cheap one, but it sucked. Plus it’s a pain with all the extension cords, having to move them, roll them up and put them away, etc.. Since then I only get gas powered. The cheap ones work fine and theirs no mess to clean up afterward and you don’t have to keep moving the cord.
I was just wondering how hard it was not to run over the chord for the electric mower. I can see it being a pain the ass. If I can avoid having a can of gas around the house it would be worth it though since my yard is not that big at all.
Of course, if it’s a very small patch, it might be good for you. We have a large lawn, so obviously it isn’t our bag. :^)
Come to think of it, You might not need an extension cord at all. I forgot how small townhouse lawns are.
Oh, and ythey now have some with rechargable batteries, but they will cost more. Not sure how good they are.
I have an end unit so it is not that small. Thanks for the comments guys I am probably going to end up getting the electric one, not having to deal with gas would be a load off my back.
I’m pretty happy with my electric mower, though, as you surmised, it’s sort of a pain in the ass to keep the cord out of the way.
It’s quiet, though, which is a big bonus for me.
I don’t have a very large lawn, though (much of the nominal lawn space is a vegetable garden, and more is going to veggies this year).
For my 40×100 patch of heaven, an electric is just peachy. I got the plug-in type because the cordless rechargeables available at the time were heavy and underpowered. I’m not sure if that’s changed in recent years. Doing the extension cord dance can be a pain in the ass, but you get used to it pretty quickly. I haven’t run over one yet!
And having said that out loud, I’ve guaranteed that I’ll shred two cords before the 4th of July…
Oh, and I don’t miss having gas and oil stinking up the tool shed. My annual maintenance consists of sharpening the blade and making sure there isn’t too much grass caked on the underside of the deck. Sure beats the hell out of winterizing a gas engine.
Good points. But without gas it’s hard to start a bonfire (or burn up a yellowjacket nest) and singe your eyebrows off. Just sayin’.
Winterizing? Uh oh.
Hey. Not to change the subject, but I wonder what people are saying about me on Twitter this morning?
LGF’s stance is symptomatic of a contemporary problem in political thought. It wants to appear scientific doesn’t it, to ally with scientific processes and methods, but it isn’t scientific, not by a long shot, so it ends up being incapable of reasoning, rejecting out of hand what it cannot account for, shooting itself with its own weapon, so to speak. Pity. Political thinking ought to seek a better way, try to hold on to reason without becoming unreasonable and where it doesn’t have answers, admit it, be honest. It’s easier said than done though, to be sure, else we’d see a better discourse taking place all about us, which, we don’t.
Let me address this, “hand holding is worse” bit that some are arguing.
I disagree, and here’s why: hand-holding shows an uncomfortable familiarity, and no one in the west should show affection to such scum, true (and commented on in Michelle’s link, for those of the strawman persuasion); but if anything, this familiarity with royalty debases the very idea of royalty — and it is the presumptuous of it all that I applaud.
And yes, if I could remember Bill Murray’s speech on the US from Stripes, I’d quote it here.
American exceptionalism is nothing to shrink from.
…or was that more of a rhetorical device than a literal “gosh, I wish I could remember that speech” thing?
Because, y’know, just trying to help.
Wasn’t he a part owner of PJM, along with Insty?
No one knows offhand?
‘Cause this whole PJM thing has the feel of “startup burns through its cash, VC comes in with new round of funding, VC insists that Changes Be Made”.
I’ve seen it happen to a number of friends.
If that’s what’s going on, Roger Simon better watch his own back, ’cause that VC money comes with a steep, steep price tag.
In specific, if your company (or what was formerly your company) comes into conflict with another company funded by the same VCs, one which they imagine might be more lucrative than yours somewhere down the line — well, they were figuring on 90% of the companies they fund going under anyway. It’s built-in to the strategy.
It sure does sucks to be a founder in that case, though.
“Let me address this, “hand holding is worse†bit that some are arguing.”
Jeff, it’s only being argued on Twitter. Over at Hot Air? Haven’t seen a post on it. Not that that fits a pattern or anything.
Twitter is a discussion consisting only of soundbites. Or soundnibbles, even.
I get enough fluff from the local news station, thank you.
Tell me Charles doesn’t think Bush should have provided King Abdullah with a step stool or phone book in order not to have “bowed”?
Tsk9, I’m sorely tempted to tell you “Charles doesn’t think”, but that would be cheating wouldn’t it?
Obama screwed up because a black man should be especially wary of subservient gestures.
Obama’s in the big leagues now and he gets to take his hits like the rest of them did.
Sucks, doesn’t it, Baracky?
LGF has become an echo chamber, the site is rapidly becoming a place where only group think is allowed, or should i say the Charles line.
The site goes from bad to worse, dreary inane posts with very little input or imagination. Thread after thread of back slapping Charles for sitting on the fence … what a total bore.
Oh, and if Obama would have bowed any lower he would have fallen flat on his face.
“Twitter is a discussion consisting only of soundbites. Or soundnibbles, even.
I get enough fluff from the local news station, thank you.”
THanks for that, Slart. Sums the whole thing up quite nicely. I have never been so happy to be un-trendy, as I have never been on Twitter/Tweeted or whatnot.
“OT but does anyone here have any experience with an electric lawnmower? I have to buy a lawnmower this coming weekend and am wondering if one would be a possibility for a townhouse.”
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I was just wondering how hard it was not to run over the chord for the electric mower. I can see it being a pain the ass. If I can avoid having a can of gas around the house it would be worth it though since my yard is not that big at all.
Flymow!
“Chords”? Are you from the UK or still living there? Flymow has been available in the UK forever, but they’re a bit harder to find here in the states. Friend of mine’s dad had a similar one in the early 90s, looked like it dated to the early 80s … guy told me he had a hovering lawnmower and I absolutely did not believe him until I saw and used it. Great for small yards, you can swing it all around since it’s omnidirectional without the wheels.
I used to have a Flymo many years ago, for a very small yard. Kept it hanging on hooks on an enclosed porch. To mow I’d take it down, unravel the extension cord, hook it all up, and do the chore, then I’d unplug, re-ravel the extension cord, and hang everything back up again.
Later I got a little gas-powered job that I kept outside under a bit of shelter. No hanging it up, no dealing with an extension cord, and because the yard was small I could do the whole yard four or five times on one tank of gas.
I’m confused- spies, you’re saying PJ Media is being funded by the Vietcong ? Surprising but in light of what’s happened to Jeff and PJM, it really explains alot.
Wasn’t Flymo the lead singer of The Skidmarks for a while?
George Bush didn’t bow. He’s an American, and we bow to no man.
But why would someone use that as an example? Is bowing a sign of cowboy diplomacy now. I mean which is it? Unilateral fucking cowboy balls-out kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out diplomacy, or bow and place your head on the chopping block in a posture that says “Today America is one of your subjects, asking for mercy” humble, apologetic, wimpy non-exceptional diplomacy.
Really, which is it?
Hmmm … Let’s see. Lot’s of talk about your “guns” and something about an “awkward rash.”
Oh and how your unreasonableness is destroying the Republican party.
Ed at Hot Air talked about this earlier.
it’s weird that charles doesn’t know what a bow is
did y’all see this from a couple days ago?
but i rerereiterate again some more that when football boy says…
there’s something else going on other than logic. Baracky Soros bows to the royal Saudi whores even as he does their bidding by stalling and kneecapping and rolling back domestic production of oil. Our president is something of a royal Saudi whore cocksucker, is what dimbulb football boy doesn’t get I think.
oh. serr8d had the lounge thing already. I am done with these goofy weirdos I think. Meaning football boy and the Allah one. I shall speak of these ones no further. There’s socialisms afoot and no time for goofy passive aggressive weirdos.
“Too gauche to twitter.”
Tish! That’s French!
There’s a pattern happening here–a choosing of sides as Jeff put it. The Christians, Jews, other peaceful theists, agnostics, and atheists are on one side and the anti-theists, Islamist-apologists, malign-narcissists and general idiots on the other. Check it out.
I would say pop culture was on the general idiot team also.
It’s pretty obvious: Little Green Footballs is a cult with CJ as its cult leader. The cult leader is getting more delusional by the day, and the followers get progressively more vicious.
Never thought a blog could lead to cult behavior, but I was obviously wrong.
Leave Obama alone. Tell that to Tom Sowell:
LTC John wrote:
THanks for that, Slart. Sums the whole thing up quite nicely. I have never been so happy to be un-trendy, as I have never been on Twitter/Tweeted or whatnot.
About the only reason why I got a twitter account was to send text messages out so people would know I was still alive after Hurricane Ike blew through Houston. Otherwise, not so much.
I’m too Groucho to Twitter. I wouldn’t use a device that would let me use it.
There’s a pattern happening here–a choosing of sides as Jeff put it.
The sides were chosen long ago, we’re just seeing things shake down another layer, a further division of chaff and wheat, as it were.
the problem are not atheists, but people who hate the country and want to feel warm and fuzzy inside and want to stay pure and without “sin”. the real atheists might get pissed off if you want to convince them of creationism, but they do not stop people from defending the country, like Charles does now.
his posting was open sabotage and tried to protect Obama from the fallout he caused by submitting to Islam.
a leftist like Charles might think of himself as an atheist, but he actually is a believer in leftist ideology.
he said in his thread:
“This thread is a microcosm of the reason why this country is in such a mess.
Way too many people treat politics like sports. We have to root for our team and scream insults at the other side, no matter what the facts say.”
here we see his ideology, his religion: we can not ever root for our country. to do so would mean to say we are better than they are, which we are not. he will just go further and further into our past to find sth that will make Obama’s submissiveness seem ok by comparison.
because we are not perfect, we can not, we must not defend ourselves and stop Obama, who will, by destroying this country, make our sins undone.
his religiosity might not have a name or God, but it is apparent and suicidal.
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