Curt over at Flopping Aces has been handed a very difficult assignment on behalf of our troops, and could really use some assistance, if any of you have the time.
Thanks for your efforts.
Completely unrelated: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night . . .
UPDATE: I agree with Allahpundit’s take on Wingnut Welfare. There. I said it. Brian at Sister Toldjah, on same.
Gotta love the reality-based community. Obama: “I won. Thanks. Now, let me eat my waffle.”
The Evil Giraffe has a reax round-up from right-of-center bloggers who had no idea how well-to-do they are.
Yup…tough duty and really do need all the help I can get, for the troops of course!
Thanks Dan
The Flopping Aces link is NSFW, btw. Good thing my office-mate was elsewhere just now.
Whenever I see anything about that new Star Trek movie it makes me think of Flintstone Kids. That’s probably not what they’re going for.
TEN MILLION STROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG
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I don’t think Mr. Riehl is clear on the concept. The feud thinger he’s talking about where he’s like wtf have you people been smoking and all, thems he’s talking about there aren’t the ones what started the “feud” thinger by telling everyone they needs to be super sweet to our dirty socialist piece of shit farce of a president and praise him when he does good things until he gets housebroken and stops bowing to saudi royal whores. It’s not like anyone was just one day all concerned that the guy what has footballs what are little and green was ideologically impure. Most people avoid that site a lot cause his commenters are dumber than Hot Air commenters even but also cause he’s boring.
Good luck to you Dan. You are going out on your own, correct?
As far as the feud goes, I have no problem with moderates, PUMAs, and others who happen to believe (as I do) that dealing with enemies of the Republic, both foriegn and domestic, is job one for the government and that such threats, mostly by Islamofacissts are out there.
What I disagree with Patterico, Johnson and others about that it is the Glenn Becks or the Rush Limbaughs that are the problem. Those guys are conservative entertainers. I do not listen to them regularly. But they are nothing (combined they have daily viewer and listnership of approximately what, 15 million out of a country of more than 300 million) compared to the influence the rest of the MSM have on political speech in general. The corosive effect of that, which is what Jeff is talking about, needs to be resisted or it is game over folks.
And obviously Patterico is mostly right leanning. Charles Johnson is libertarian-social moderate or liberal/strong on national defense. The point is they are shooting at the wrong target.
Mr. Patterico is very very right-leaning I think he’s pro-life even. He is not same as Allah and Charles.
Honestly, I don’t need people in lock step with me. I’d just like it if we seem to have the same targets w/in our sights.
My favorite people are the ones who never turn their guns on me. I count that person with the Italian-sounding blogonym among those who have turned their guns (figuratively) on me (i.e., the political principles I adhere to) recently so he’s not one of my favorite people.
No, I think Dan Riehl’s right. To the extent that people are calling Charles et al. a “turn-coat” or whatever, that’s not accurate and also assumes some foolish things.
I’ve also long perceived that the blogospheric alignment is premised on the WoT more than anything else. LGF began its life as a humble blog on Web sit design, and only after the 9/11 attacks did Charles start posting stuff on Islamic extremism, though he’d been following that subject before 9/11. LGF gradually became the go-to place for news on Islamic extremism, and after drawing and quartering Dan Rather, LGF became a Big Cheese what helped found PJM.
Most of the starboard-side bloggers will tell you that they got into blogging because of 9/11, so that alignment is still mostly in force.
It’s all a matter of strange bedfellows, after all, and if Charles “goes off the reservation,” as it were, what’s the deal with giving him grief over it? Are we Lefties?
Charles can say what he wants about how the GOP ought to do its messaging. That doesn’t mean he isn’t DEAD WRONG, but it also doesn’t mean he ought to be gleefully abused for being a “traitor.”
When he starts saying that we should implement sharia in the U.S., THEN we can rightfully smack him upside the head.
That’s pretty much what I look for in people, McGehee. But I’m blindly optimistic.
Joe, yeah. Thanks. After Jeff is done with the Chicago gig, I’m going to hang out my own shingle, I think. First, I’ve got to take the family down to FL to check out how M&D are doing in the assisted living facility they’ve moved into. He’s gone blind (macular degeneration), and she’s got frontal-lobe dementia. Important to go see them.
So, I might pretty much disappear for a couple of weeks, since when I return I’ll be busy grading and finishing up the semester, and I’ve got that Metapoetics stuff that I’ve got to return to, by way of promise. A couple of people are telling me that WordPress really is the way to go. I don’t really have HTML skillz. Lots of things to consider.
Nah, there’s nothing wrong with Charles being Charles, dicentra. The only thing that I object to on the part of some of these people is that we bitch all the time about the victim industry, and then they cast themselves as victims when they go off criticizing folks and other folks push back. For chrissakes, STOP TEH WHINING!
Also, the superiority complexes get a bit hard to swallow. Moreover, David Brooks.
Right, d but people calling Charles a goofy liberal isn’t what started this is my point. Charles told proper conservatives that they suck and so the for real conservatives said shut up you stupid Obama-loving moron what is a traitor. And now Dan R is saying they shouldn’t say that to Charles cause Charles is just being Charles. Well Charles, turns out, is fucking obnoxious. I can’t remember where I was going with this.
And Charles is a lying piece of shit when he says George Bush bowed to the Saudi royal whore.
That’s bad as any propaganda NPR spews out.
Hello? Intentionalism?
Where did that one kid what explains everything so good get off to? He was just here yesterday.
Australia, maybe?
“WARNING: SOME IMAGES MAY OFFEND. North Melbourne say education, not punishment, is the best solution to the ‘Chickengate’ YouTube video affair.
08/04/09”
I just think that Dan’s saying that it was a marriage of convenience, as dicentra notes above, that was bound to come to an end, because the differences were papered over by a mutual interest in the prosecution of the GWoT against ferocious resistance from the MSM & the left. I don’t think he’s criticizing Charles in this case, because he’s more interested in telling people who seem offended by Charles’s differences on social and domestic political issues, now that the page has turned, that they’ve been unrealistic in their assumptions regarding how deep the mutual interests of some of the what was regarded as the blogospheric right went.
Having said that, though, he says that CJ’s been wrong about Beck, and that people who agree with folks like ex-Dodd speechwriter Cohen really don’t have any interest in anything that might be definable as conservatism, per se. And that it’s really not productive for people who disagree on such fundamental grounds to go on about how they’ve been betrayed by each other, when in fact they were deluded by the assumption that they had a lot in common. So, you know, why not break up and disagree without all the incrimination.
Why does Joe seem to relish trying to keep some sort of feud alive with Patterico?
Hola, happyfeet.
chuck doesn’t think that the not natural born citizen’s bow to the keeper of mecca and medina means anything. i think chuck is teh ghey
Well yeah but Charles lied and Dan R should discipline him cause lying is wrong.
Hola! I swear there’s a lot of apples and oranges getting jumbled up. Mr. Patterico is definitely an orange. And you can tell him I said that.
Yeah, I mostly agree with Patterico. What I disagree about most, and I think this goes for Jeff, as well, is the degree to which language actually structures our reality. In fact, how little there is of reality that can be mutually considered without language.
Agreed, Dan. People like Joe help nobody.
I am a lemon, hf. A sour one.
Yeah, that Newt ass hair said Bush did the same thing on O’Reilly the other day. Bill was all like “Bush bowed to the king?” all incredulous like, and Newt was like “well, he did something like that”, ‘cuz Newt was just talking out his ass and was just trying not to be irrational or something, but really he came off as not knowing what he was talking about, but Bill just let it go, so now it’s all like well, Bush did it too, which is the favorite defense of Obama for those RINO motherfuckers that want Obama to not fail at changing America into a backwater, banana republic socialist dictatorship.
JD, I believe Joe said “Patterico is mostly right leaning”
Are those fighting words?
I dunno. Joe makes good comments. I’m relieved that that business is behind us. For now, anyway. Epistemological impasses are usually enormous clusterfarks, which is why, even if you don’t agree with the idea in its particulars, it’s important to opt in very strongly (say, in the way that an existentialist might into Christianity) in order to mutually construct meaning. Which is pretty much Ramesh Ponnuru’s argument in the post that blowhard pointed out, here.
Lee – It was the message he attributed to someone else, a message that is demonstably false, that I disagree with. Plus, it is clear he enjoys trying to stir the pot and keep some feud going, even when the principals have backed away.
But flying squirrels *think* they’re for real flying, Dan. You can see it in their face. So is them flying or gliding?
like the pot belly pig launching a missile while the O! reads from 1 of 12 teleprompters
On a lighter note, now that Barcky is Prezzdent, even the pirates of penzance are no longer scared of the US of A. Congrats, you dirty little socialist appeaser.
hf: I can haz nutz? I can haz nutz?
yes always enjoyed those shortwave broadcast from the politburo. those 5 year ag plans are doing well. go mutual of omaha
Did you know they make flying lemurs too? They are way freaky. Colugos they call them.
And Hillary is “deeply concerned”, so that should make someone feel better.
Isn’t a lemur a monkey, you racists?!
state farm has an adm ring to it
BTW, my point at 35 was not to insult flying squirrels, but to demonstrate how far superior to Olbermann they are. Because language is not necessarily an unequivocally good thing.
I dunno. Joe makes good comments.
“Easy A” Collins it is, then.
chimps aint no monkeys
Lemurs are the ones with the eyes I think. They must see in the dark or something. Dark monkeys of the night. And these ones fly.
ZOMG – flying big-eared monkeys that only come out at night ?!?! RACISTS !!!!
I’m Rocky, Fly Me
Some others who are not my favorite people: the Dixie Chicks. But I have a couple of their pre-self-beclowning tunes on my MP3 player. So the feller with the Italian-sounding blogonym can’t say there’s no hope at all. If someone who’s beclowned him/her/itself repents, I can forgive. Meanwhile I’m not going to say, “Everything you ever said I once agreed with, now I don’t because you beclowned yourself.”
That would be demented.
What hf said. Charles Johnson can run his blog as he pleases, but he does run it like a world-class prick. Drawing in new ‘hatchlings’, then purging 95% of ’em if they aren’t ready to disavow religion and give him a proper blowjob. I could care less if his politics were extreme right or left, just don’t be a godless prick.
It isn’t clear to me, as his comment seemed to be on topic. And how was the attribution wrong, and how was it false?
I think it unreasonable to expect that still relevant and unresolved argument to never be referenced again. I don’t see where you can automatically assume evil motives.
Everyone knows rubbing a condom on your keyboard after it’s been touching a raw chicken is sort of not best practice I think.
Moreover, David Brooks.
I surely have no rebuttal to that.
Drawing in new ‘hatchlings’, then purging 95% of ‘em if they aren’t ready to disavow religion and give him a proper blowjob.
I’m explicitly religious and I’m still not banned over at LGF. I suppose that’s why I’m able to keep defending Charles. After he bans me, I’ll go ahead and lay into him.
I’m disappointed that I haven’t been banned there, sort of like I was disappointed when only one old pensioner on a bicycle in an alley was kind of rude to me in France.
But that may be because I never comment there, too.
i think charles does a good job at LGF. he represents a certain rational tradition within the GOP, and frankly, alarmist loons like Glenn Beck do not help things. More broadly, he is helping police the uglier side of the anti-jihadist blogs and has helped draw attention to the descent of Fox News into utter madness. Hell, even Victor Davis Hanson called out Fox.
And I do think there is a credible worry that some of the right could pick up where Kos and HufPo left off with Bush. One of the nice things about leaving the left, outside of leaving leftists and leftism behind, was the beleif that I could be right and be correct at the same time; that I would not have to be a lying sack of shit to make an argument, or conduct myself like a petulant 11 year old.
Im glad he is on our side, even if he sometimes pisses me off.
me: hamas is misunderstood too. ask O!
Remember the time I said I’d lay into Charles when he banned me?
Well, I last logged on a few hours ago, and now my account is blocked. Prolly because I kept clicking the minus button on all the anti-Glenn Beck posts.
So. Here goes: “CURSE YOU, CHARL…”
Aw, who cares.
it is difficult to see what is coming if your whole raison d’etre is apologizing for America’s “sins.
and glenn beck said what to whom when
[…] No, really. This is going to shock the rest of us over at sites like RedState, Right Wing News, Protein Wisdom, Sister Toldjah, and well, myself*; none of us have a seven-figure yearly budget. Heck, some of […]
with regard to beck: i thought it was interesting to hear about thugs shooting Marcus Luttrell‘s dog today on beck’s show. hey nyt maybe a story? nah don’t fit the narrative.
i want to say to marcus out there somewhere during holy week godspeed.
fuckin shot daisey fuckin shot his buddies
chuck football is very tiny “man”
I don’t know if I’ve actually read more than a half dozen posts over at LGF. And, I haven’t seen a single episode of Beck.
In other words, as soon as we start discussing Glamorama, the underappreciated novels of Magnus Mills, or ’80s era D.C. punk rock, I’m gonna be psyched.
so you don’t know what you are talking about?
Yeah, and it’s the chicken fuckers that feel the need to guard against it the most.
“so you don’t know what you are talking about?”
I thought it would be obvious by now.
Lots to catch up on here. But as for this:
…let me see if I’ve got this straight. Hamsher, Aravosis and Markos “Screw Them” Moulitsas have been publishing the talking points they’re directly fed for quite a while now and they’re finally emboldened enough to admit that unequivocally….because they aren’t getting paid.
You gotta love the left.
You’ve pretty much got it, Pablo!
obvious idiot?
mcgruder, you think Charles is a traditional Republican? Bzzzzzzzzt.
I used to love LGF. It used to be one of the smartest blogs on the net. I guess that was when Charles and I were worried about the same things.
Okay, router, I’m playing it as a joke, but fill me in then if something’s bugging you. Why the bad blood? I’m joking around.
ain’t you. these fools shot marcus’ dog. don’t like the slime from the do nothing left
OK, cool.
Barney Frank acting as a mendoucheous douchebag…
Okay, that is not news.
Yeah, that thing about Latrell’s dog is heartbreaking. Effing psychos.
Glenn uses the story to show that there are lots of people with guns who can be trusted to not go off half-cocked (so to speak) in the heat of anger.
alot of sick bastards out there. teharen, n. korea, pittsburgh
Hey, Joe… acting?
Not so much. That’s as real as it gets.
But flying squirrels *think* they’re for real flying, Dan. You can see it in their face. So is them flying or gliding?
Depends which way the wind is blowing.
he is helping police the uglier side of the anti-jihadist blogs
What is ugly about being anti-jihadist?
Hf @ #50 made Mt. Dew squirt out my nose. Violently.
Hey Dan, #12, about hanging your own shingle , over at Bloody Scott (awesome, awesome picture btw) or somewhere else?
Had a different but possibly similar experience with my ma, btw. Good luck. It can be tough. Hang in there.
Sorry, off topic, but if people haven’t gone over to Bloody Scott and taken a moment to appreciate the picture on the left they’re missing out. The writing might be good too.
left=right. Picture-wise that is.
Dan, in France copping a free feel is only seen as complimentary if you’re standing in a crowded subway. You should really be more culturally sensitive.
Excellent
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/04/shut-up.html
Hamsher, Aravosis and Markos “Screw Them†Moulitsas have been publishing the talking points they’re directly fed for quite a while now and they’re finally emboldened enough to admit that unequivocally….because they aren’t getting paid.
You gotta love the left.
No shit! Combined with their little circle jerk list serv kool kids group JournoLISTâ„¢, I’m starting to feel like I’m in some kind of projection plot Twilight Zone.
Hacks for sale — I think there called whores, no?
they’re called whores, not there.
Journalistâ„¢ in action
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/04/msm-complicit-in-full-court-pr-push-for.html
Or else they won’t get their talking points printed on blogs anymore and blackfaced in photoshop.
Memo
To: Everyone else on teh intarwebs
Re: Flopping Aces / Ranger Up Girls
Stop going there for a minit! It won’t load! It won’t load!
Sincerely,
Merovign, the post has been seared, seared into my memory.
Just so you know, Army. Go Army.
Okay, I got on the site, you can all go back to your bunks now, kthxbai.
:)
blowhard: Go Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, National Guard, Dog Catcher and Unaffiliated. w00t!
HAHAHA
Gun Toting liberal has a pretty good Blogola photoshop
http://guntotingliberal.com/?p=5290
A litt OT but…. WTF!!!!
“Obama May Block Sun’s Rays to End Global Warming”
I thought his head was wacked before?????
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513242,00.html
Does your mums wear a pink terry-cloth frock and proceed at a crawl with the assistance of a shiny aluminum walker? I think I almost ran her down in the Walgreen’s parking lot yesterday. Not on purpose, mind you, she just happened to be in my blind spot as I attempted to back out of my parking space. Regardless, it was just another daily near-miss here on heaven’s door step, where every restaurant advertises its early bird specials in the front window, meaning from 4pm-6pm you’re likely to get two-dollars off an entree and a free dinner salad. Whether the aging enjoy eating early so as to be first to bed or whether 4pm is the hour they arise from bed is tough to judge. They niggle the best deals in town on buffet dining that’s all one can say for sure. Economically speaking if you were a traveling minstrel with a ukulele or an accordion, as long as you can fill requests for every known song written by Gershwin, you can always find work here on the step. They do love top notch entertainment. And their unwavering support for the arts, as long as it’s circa 1930’s, is unwavering. I love your mums, Dan, and all your mums and grammums, America, and therefore I swear to God I’ll even go as far as to look under my car in case your lovely arthritic mums have slipped under its clearance or behind my treads before backing out from a parking space in the future.
North of Miami, U.S.A., where flowers grow year round, where compressed oxygen comes at a 10% discount if you clip the coupon from the daily, where grand kids are constantly warned away from the deep end, all the best.
“My Country Elected A Dirty Socialist And All I Got Was This Stupid Blog-Feud.”
I think someone needs to refill his lithium prescription. That’s a heck of a lot of effort right there to riff on Dan’s passing reference to his ailing parents.
But I think, whilst recoiling, we can all appreciate the formidable reinforcement of our assessment of thor’s character.
Comment by thor on 4/8 @ 10:16 pm #
Please ignore the talking dog dropping.
Thank you.
Comment by Benedick on 4/9 @ 6:19 am #
Please ignore the talking open ulceration.
Thank you.
A medium size nuclear exchange, would solve the problem, much simpler, maybe that’s Obama’s shortcut by promising mass reductions
in nuclear weapons. Come on, did he sleep through the last twenty five years, since he wrote his thesis.
Wow, thor, that’s some pretty amazing hatred right there, considering how you get your back up when you perceive anything might be insulting to your sainted dad–whose service and suffering, by the way, I honor.
Dad was a clinical pathologist, who taught as well at the medical college nearby and carried on research that led to breakthroughs in the treatment of osteoporosis. He served in the Air Force, was chairman of the American Red Cross blood bank, and heavily involved in other charitable organizations. He’s a interesting guy, who can quote Shakespeare and Augustine, and who can pour a foundation for a house and tile a roof.
Mom went to Northwestern and taught elementary school before she married. She was unsparingly kind to people, easy to laugh, got up every morning and made him breakfast before he went to work, and kept his metaphysical brooding in check with a healthy dose of down-to-earth (if sometimes macabre) humor. She was the happiest and warmest person I ever knew, and between them they took in all the strays of our large extended family and gently put them on track, while raising 5 of their own. As a young woman with 4 children, she developed a very serious kidney problem, and the doctors told her that having another baby might spell the end for her. But she went ahead and had the fifth, whose birthday it is today, with the same faith that she has displayed always.
What they are now, thor, is none of your business, though they own homes in Wisconsin and in Florida. But I will tell you this: what they are, without a miracle, you will never be, even when you are old, even when you have a shiny walker, even when, after a lifetime of doing for others, you become dependent. I hope that life is merciful to you.
#Comment by Dan Collins on 4/9 @ 6:46 am #
Dan, it’s useless.
thor is am execrable piece of human shit, a slime mold with the soul of an NKVD torturer.
Ignore him.
And alla’ best to you and your parents.
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To quote the boys from Ranger-Up: “People who want to ban guns just haven’t met the people in this world who need to be shot.”
Guess who made that list years ago?
Dan,
What is it with clinical pathologists being such Renaissance men? My Dad was one too. Similar wide range of abilities and experiences (well, not the Red Cross one! Navy, not Air Force, taught- U of IL – and authored what was for a few years the definitive book on electronics in the laboratory). Taught me to shoot, fish, use everything from a soldering iron to laying brick…
I don’t know, LTC John. Maybe because they stand at the crossroads between the laboratory and the human being, and they have to translate between the two as best they may. Maybe because their responsibility is so great. Maybe because they’re just so effing smart. Or maybe we are just lucky.
When we were small and used to go fishing, my dad would say, “I’m not an angler; I’m an untangler.”
With datura, you have to dig it up with a wooden implement, and offer a prayer to the plant spirit, so as to avoid bad trips. Also there are procedures for extracting and ingesting. From the look of things, thor just walked up to one, shouted insults at it, dug it up with a garden spade and chowed the whole root down on the spot, dirt and all.
You don’t honor my dad anymore than you deserve to be outraged at some non-important lightheartedness directed at the old people in South Florida.
I talked to my dad this morning, he asked if I made all I wanted to after I informed him that I was busy taking profits. Silly old man, what kind of loaded question is that. You’d think he knew me by now.
Your parents sound like good, decent folk.
I bet after you get a $10 haircut your head looks just like the wet end of a crazy man’s penis.
Dana Corp trades under the symbol DAN. Highly volatile! Buyer beware.
thor: Please click here.
#Comment by BJT-FREE! on 4/9 @ 12:39 pm #
Please ignore the talking buboe.
Thank you.
Last time, I promise.
Thanks, BJT.
How would thor know what the wet end of a crazy mans penis looks like. ……………………………..unless,…………………………………….?
Maybe you should follow Dan around PW and make dozens and dozens of snarky little comments under the nickname of “Dan’s dad,” Rusty.