“Politics is about who’s got the best list.”
Petticoats gratefully accepted.
Why does Hugo Chavez hate us? Is it because Bush’s ‘dead or alive’ed him or ‘with us or against usâ€ed him? Hardly. Chavez wants to end democracy in Venezuela for good, turn it into a Cuba-like communist dictatorship, use his oil revenues to whip up liberationist, anti-Yanqui feelings throughout South America, and end up with himself as some sort of messianic caudillo of the entire socialist continent. Sound crazy?
No more crazy than the daily Chavez communiqués. Again, by good or bad diplomacy we can soothe or excite him–but otherwise his aims are antithetical to the notion of democratic, capitalist states, with close ties to the North American democracies.
Fausta recalls when Chavez told Obama to wash his ass.
And, via Pundit and Pundette, NewsBusters compares CNN coverage of the Palin’s extended family with that of the Obamas.
CNN has displayed a double standard in its coverage of the difficulties involving the extended family of Sarah Palin versus that of President Barack Obama. Two programs on the network on Thursday evening used multiple soap opera references to describe recent occurrences in the “Palin family saga.†This contrasts with two incidents involving the aunt and half-brother of the president, which have received minimal coverage from the network.
Anchor Roland Martin began the soap opera imagery in his promo for a segment about Palin on the No Bias, No Bull program: “Folks, talk about ‘The Young and the Restless’ — these days Governor Sarah Palin must be feeling like she’s living in a soap opera. It’s everything from her daughter’s unplanned pregnancy, to a family member ending up behind bars, and it’s not over yet. We’ll catch you up with all the real-life Palin family drama.†After a commercial break, a CNN graphic referenced another daytime TV title at the beginning of the segment: “Palin: The Days of Her Lives.†The anchor also used a similar line, speaking of the “days of the Palin lives.â€
That’s great. I think that we should write a pilot for “The Nairobi Hillbillies,” or a daytime drama, “Things Fall Apart.”
Warner Todd Huston on The Unimaginable. Also, science.
Gerard Vanderleun on Wolly. Heh.
OT/ Friday night White House news dump. Obama’s new Stem cell policy released. Washington Pst:
The draft guidelines hew closely to those at other entities, such as the National Academy of Sciences. Would-be parents who go to clinics for in vitro fertilization generally create more embryos than will be implanted, and embryos not used are destroyed or kept frozen. The guidelines would allow couples to donate embryos for research, as long as they are not paid and are fully informed of their options. Federal money still wouldn’t be used to create the stem cell lines from such embryos, but if that work is done with private money, federally funded research could make use of those stem cells. Above all, federal funds wouldn’t be used to create embryos for use in research. After a public comment period, final guidelines will be issued by July 7.
O!’s family? You know our dedicated, servile MSM won’t cover anything negative about the ONE! (or the TWO!, if powdered noses are involved); such topics will always be off-limits. Counter to their narrative. Those toadys will fawn and kneel and ignore until someone shames ’em into a half-hearted, short-lived gesture. See John Edwards and his love child scandal. That might have stayed quiet had the National Enquirer not had such a huge audience.
Dunno why, but this came immediately to mind whilst I gazed at that photo.
But Dan, Charles Johnson is worried about the dangers of right wing extremeists.
Now apparently some Neo Nazi hates Obama and wanted to build a dirty bomb. A bad thing to be sure. So his wife killed him. He also inhereted $2 million dollars, so I am not sure if that was part of the motive for his wife to kill him, but let’s assume all of this is true.
I got banned, personally by PCharles himself for my comment at #513.
Why is a Neo Nazi called “right wing”? That is a very broad brush. Why not call Neo Nazis, well, Neo Nazis? This is not just semantics. Do you know anyone on the right who embraces Nazis? Nazis are not classical liberals. Nazis do not support the consitution. Neo-Nazis are almost always racists and anti Semites and that is their prime motivation.
Nor do I accept Tim McVeigh as on my side. He is not. McVeigh was a fucked up twisted loner who went nuts, more akin to an adult school shooter than a representative of a political movement. And I do not see the right wing embracing these fuckers the way the Democratic Party does with the Weather Underground, Hugh Chavez, Castro, etc.
And memo to Charles Johnson, just because Glenn Beck’s name is German and he is on Fox, that does not make him a Nazi.
Charles Johnson is a small tiny pussy of a man. It is a shame he is a coward but that is the way it is. If my comment at 513 is too much for him he is in the wrong profession. That is the type of nonsense Daily Kos does.
The Mrs. says this is in a similar vein.
Huh. Mr. Joe, you are obviously a CREATIONIST!!!!1!!!ELEVENTY11!!1!
Thanks, Joe. I linked your comment to a post by Donald Douglas.
I linked my post to American Power as well.
Dan, you’re pretty good at this lifting petticoats thing, aren’t you?
erm, listing petticoats. )
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Thanks Dan. I have nothing against Charles Johnson’s political views. I believe in evolution too. Over beers I would probably agree with many of his points. But his recent snipings against the “right wing” are nuts and wrong and it is okay to say so. Jeff’s whole taking back the language point is also about responding to slanders about the “right”. Nutbag Janeane Garafalo says without challenge that the whole tea party movement is about racists with small brains who hate Obama. So when you have Johnson saying “right wing” monsters are out there building dirty bombs, well it is guilt by association. Johnson is playing right into it and frankly I have come to the conclusion it is intentional on Johnson’s part. I don’t discount that the FBI has to stop monsters and terrorists, clearly such individuals exist. If I knew about Cummings preparing a bomb, I would drop a dime on him. But then again, I do not hang out with guys like Cummings. But this claim of right wing extremists ploting to take out Obama and the country is an association that simply does not exist.
I can’t help laughing about how the left kept saying that all the lies about Obama by McCain/Palin during the campaign were turning rallies into mobs of angry right wing nuts. And now that it’s clear that Obama is everything conservatives thought he was – and more!!!! – the opposition is still characterized as angry right wing nuts but instead of Liars!!!! (now that the election is over) it’s just shut up!!!! and terrorists!!!!!
I think I burned out my exclamation point key.
@serr8d,
Erm. Uh. Next question.
I think CJ has quite gone round the twist.
I registered there just because, but the echo chamber they run is not conducive to discourse. His obsession with the creationistas has rather made him monocromatic, as it were.
He takes nice pictures, though.
I wonder if Chabo told O! to wipe his ass again.
Doesn’t everybody?
Comrad Chavez! Amigo! Compadre! Viva los Estados Unidos de América y Venezuela!
As a proud American I look forward to visiting my brothers and sisters in the Socialist political countries of Cuba and Venezuela. What a wonderful world it is that today, in the spirit of Obama’s America, we can can travel and visit and value each other as humans and respect each other as equals first and foremost.
Cuba is a wonderful country so rich with artisans, writers and history and of course the world’s best boxers, baseball players, coffee and cigars. Italo Calvino y Jose Marti, mi amigos mas importante!
Your signature work featuring turds is unique.
“frankly I have come to the conclusion it is intentional on Johnson’s part”
I don’t know why he demands neo-nazi’s be conflated with the right wing. It is odd.
Not to wander to far OT, but Joe started it.
Charles pronounces that nazis are right wingers.
Because of the Nationalism.
Who knew?
All the kings court thanks him for clearing that bit up.
Cuba is fatally flawed. Sort of like Iraq, when Saddam was in power.
tHor,
Go practise your autoerotic asphyxiation.
That was English spelling BTW.
Your signature work featuring turds is unique.
“Each night, thousands of trolls go to bed hungry.” Can’t a brother by now even get a troll his “breakfast toast”? Si se pueda! ?
Oh yeah…nationalism. Thanks for clearing that up! I am glad I have Charles Johnson out there to keep us wild right wingers from getting downright dangerous. The right wing are just nationalists, so that makes them aligned with the Nazis.
No me moleste mosquito
Let me eat my burrito
No me moleste mosquito
Why don’t you go home?
Calvino, a true Communist aficionado, never an empty P-brain-esque poseur, fused a brilliant Marquez-like imagination with the sharp word concision of academics, which he was, at heart.
He fuckin’ swung for the cheap seats when he stepped to the plate. After reading On a Winter’s Night… and/or his other postmodern works many with motivation to write fiction have let out a reluctant sigh with respect to the bar Italo moved so high. He was not a man to waste words. He was Italo, the cherished son of Italy, America and Cuba. Crack! To the bleachers in left field!
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“Hugo’s grasp of the weenie was more delicate, while Barak’s, more comforting.”
Opinions, readings and thoughts on the philosophical influences of Italo Calvino.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/31/specials/calvino.html?_r=2
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“Therein, Nationalism and States Rights seemed but mere wisps of distant nightmares.”
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Wash his ass??? by the look Barry is giving him, I suspect Barry will gladly eat the corn out of his crap…
Joe
I have no clue why that post of yours would get you banned … it was non-confrontational, no swear words and, if I read you correctly, your main argument is that given the scant evidence, he could be apolitical. Then Charles later snarks
Bikeboy has arrived at the point that any objection to Obama is, ipso facto, definitive of right-wing extremism.
Maybe I should redo my “I kissed the President” photoshop with Charles in the teddy.
Comment by Roland THTG on 4/18 @ 8:00 am #
Comment by J. “Trashman” Peden on 4/18 @ 8:06 am #
Please ignore the thimbless moron.
Thank you.
Thumbless.
Stupidity must be contagious.
Ignorance can be cured.
stupiditytHOR is forver.Good news! O! promises he’s going to cut wasteful government spending:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090418/us_nm/us_obama_budget
Bad news! This is what he has in mind for balancing the budget:
Only in Washington would you have to announce this decision as some sort of nod to fiscal austerity when most people with a small business would skip the $3 million “consultant” contract, just say, “I like that logo” and just put it up on their mailers or something.
He also did this:
The same Sirius XM Radio that barely avoided bankruptcy (despite being a monopoly in the satellite radio business) and had to get emergency loans just to survive:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/17/AR2009021700928.html
That’s almost as dumb as if the President were to ask the Twitter execs (a company that still produces no revenue) to help find ways to reduce the deficit. Woops, they’ve already done that!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/06/obama_seeks_economic_advice_from_twitter/
Remember Sim City? Well it’s becoming increasingly obvious that this is the Sim President. The guy has never run a god damned thing and now he’s supposed to run the entire free world.
Our incompetent Sim President is just repeatedly tapping the A button hoping for something good to happen. It isn’t.
Phil
there are no words …….
Eh, I’m disinclined to slam someone for not looking good on TV. I’ve been on the tube before, and I looked like a zombie and sounded like a squeak toy.
That’s right, he asked everyone and their Twittering brother if they could solve the Meltdown in 140 characters or less.
Jasus.
On the other hand, “resign” would fit into 140 characters.
So the Sim President is hanging out with and shaking hands with actual Communists like Hugo Chavez. Let me repeat that, our Sim President is shaking hands with actual Communists now.
Me? I don’t know any neo-Nazis, have never known any neo-Nazis and never have any intention to do so. Also, since the Nazis are National SOCIALISTS, I don’t buy the argument that they’re even on the right.
In any case, apparently Charles think I’m the more dangerous one.
“Going to the White House tomorrow for a meeting about the economy (which must mean they’re *really* out of ideas). What should I tell them?â€.
“Don’t
tasetax me, bro!”?h/t bitter-clinger Teabagger
Shitbirds of a feather and all.
Darleen–I know what you mean. I lean right. That makes me part of the right wing. Some racist scum like Cummings (assuming he really was a Nazi because it is possible his wife made that up to justify killing him) is not autmatically “right wing” because he happens to hate President Obama. Nazis and similar racists are sufficiently outside the mainstream to be catogorized as unacceptable to all. Communists, given their horrendous track record, should be treated the same way, but unfortunately they are not.
And that is my problem with Charles Johnson. He buys into and actually promotes the meme that the right wing includes Nazis. It does not. I support the idea of what William F. Buckley did in discounting and ignoring John Birchers when they threatened to drag down the conservative movement in the late 50s and early 60s. That is not what Charles Johnson is engaged in. Johnson is going way beyond that with these Sullivanesque argments and posts. Who do you know of conservatives who support Neo Nazis? Even Buchanan, who I am absolutely not a fan of and consider outside mainstream conservatism, is not a Nazi. Frankly the only reason Buchanan has a slot on MSNBC is to slander the right wing.
And the same is true for Tim McVeigh. McVeigh is the equivalent of a school shooter. He was a loser who commited a monsterous crime and he deserved to be put down. He had no movement, one of two loser friends, was basically a failure in life. He was not religious or a Christian as the left would portray. Just because he liked guns and was once a republican does not make him right wing. In no way does anyone of the “right wing” embrace that. McVeigh was universally condemned. That is like blaming Jonestown or Charles Manson on the left. I would not do that. I do however, judge when someone like Beradette Dohrn (Ayers wife) is quoted applauding Mason’s murders and being gleeful about Sharon Tate getting a fork stuck in her.
Ultimately Charles Johnson is a coward. He is yellow. I would debate him anytime, anywhere. I would have posted on his site without name calling, just making arguments. Hell, I might even agree with him more than I disagree. But Charles Johnson is a sniveling worm who cannot take it.
I do not hate President Obama. If would use the word hate at all, it would be limited to some of his policies. They are wrong. They are profoundly wrong. We are allowed to disagree with policies we do not like.
Darleen–Charles Johnson’s argument is sloppy and so over broad to be if did not support Obama that a racist and a member of the “right wing”.
This is hysterical – a must see!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK5hrKHrFzI
Why is Cuba a shit hole and third world country 50 years after Che and Fidel murdered their way to power. And why in 50 years no one else been allowed to be the dictator and murderer?
Why is Cuba so poor?? Explain that to me libtards!!
Why is Cuba a shit hole and third world country 50 years after Che and Fidel murdered their way to power.
Indeed, and the USA even cooperated in the bold, progressive experiment by refusing to exploit the Cuban people through capitalist schemes like free trade and sending tsunamis of fat, loathsome, bermuda’ed tourists to the no-Cubans-allowed gulfside resorts. Utopia is surely just around the corner.
Here’s doooooozie of a question for liberals to piss all over themselves with!
Which “Demographic” commits murder in extremely disproportionate numbers in America, AND, how many murders or violent acts do you recall these “RIGHT WING NEO-NAZI’S” committing.
You see, the answer is that liberals are extremely violent and Conservative errrrrr EXTREME RIGHT WINGERS are not. Unless we are fighting Radical Islamofascism or saving Europe from themselves.
Yes Jeffersonian, you are on to something. The liberal stunted emotionally disturbed brain seems to assert that Cuba cannot be successful or prosperous without US. Why is that. What have we got that they need. And why don’t they have it. This is the CRUX of Dimwit Obama’s childlike naivette. No Marxist nor Socialist country in history has ever had ANYTHING to give the world, except tyranny. “MARXIST CONTROL cannot FEED a WORLD IN NEED.” Does that quote sound vaguely familiar? We fed the Soviet Union, not the other way around. We’ve saved millions from disease and famine. Cuba hasn’t. Obama is fucked in the head.
But aren’t you ignoring the peaceful, pastoral, agrarian utopia brought about by the Khmer Rouge, Gus? I bet their carbon footprint was almost insignificant, too.
The Khmer Rouge only killed because the French made them angry. I’m sure the French have apologized by now.
Listen Jeffersonian, facts don’t matter to libtards. They believe in Fairy Dust and Unicorns. They shit all over our friends and suck our foes balls. Obama is not an intelligent man. He is a Marxist who has never had to work for anything in his life. He is of average intelligence and he is not honest. His mother was a loser and his 2 Muslim Daddies were losers too. His entire existance and place in history is as a result of affirmative action both sanctioned and self imposed by the idiots who believed his nonsense. It’s dawning on people, but those on the left would snip off their fingers with a rusty scissors than ever admit to being wrong. Funny thing is liberals are almost always wrong. Obama is all about himself. He is a narcissist and so is his wife.
nah. Rotting corpses emit a lot of carbon gases. Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t. Fucking universe!
“Comment by Jeffersonian on 4/18 @ 12:37 pm #
But aren’t you ignoring the peaceful, pastoral, agrarian utopia brought about by the Khmer Rouge, Gus? I bet their carbon footprint was almost insignificant, too.”
I don’t know about that.
2,000,000 rotting human corpes would produce a lot of CO2.
Good call Rusty.
Great minds, eh?
Just got back from our little city’s Tea Party. Had around 400-500 people there. pretty good for a town of 50,000. Beautiful sunny day. First really nice one this year.
Had a number of speakers. Battle Creek’s Mayor Mark Behnke, Michigan’s AG Mike Cox, Tim Walberg who was our conservative US Congressman until losing a tight race in November, Michigan House Representative James Bolger, and former Representative Mike Nofs who we hope will be running for our currently open/unfilled State Senate seat. Mike Cox and Tim Walberg both had the crowd rocking.
All the politicians who spoke were Republicans. Democrats were invited to come and speak but all had other more pressing engagements. A great day.
Of the ten US cities with the highest rates of violent crime, how many are run by white right wingers? Bonus question, how many have a black democrat mayor?
…initiating auto-denunciation…
I don’t know Jamrat, all I know is that Opie cleaned up Chicago and moved on to Washington D.C..
Which Marxist country has fed the starving people of Africa? All Cuba has done is export tooth decay and lung cancer. Why are people willing to risk death on the high seas to GET OUT of Cuba? Why don’t they just book a flight to Palm Springs on Che Guevara Airlines??
C’mon libs let’s hear it pussies!!
nah. Rotting corpses emit a lot of carbon gases. Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t. Fucking universe!
Good point, both of you, and that’s not even mentioning the methane.
#60: RACIST!!!
I forgot Saddam Hussein was a mass murderer too. Libs please talk amongst yourselves. Topic: Who is the liberals favorite dictator both past and present. Hint: G.W.Bush is not one of the choices.
“Topic: Who is the liberals favorite dictator both past and present.”
Whichever one killed the most slaves.
N O’Brain, it was a trick question. All of them was the correct answer.
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Joe:
The Rev. Jim Jones was a celebrity among the left; there are pictures of all manner of New Left figures with Jones. His “theology” was largely Marxism with a dash of lunacy, with a thin skin of Christian terminology covering it up. The move to Jonestown was to create a communal utopia where the US government couldn’t interfere.
Undoubtedly Jones and his followers were unbalanced, but the left embraced him even after that fact (tho’ not its extent) was evident.
Holy crap the Jim Jones reference is precious. Drink the Kool-aid is a Jim Jones original. Jim Jones and liberals are one and the same. Commune?? As in Communist. Collectivist. Following their cult leader like sheep.
Liberals are sheep and need someone to tend the flock. Conservatives are generally about individuals and liberty.
#58
on my part, blind pig, acorn.
Jones became a political player in San Francisco by inflating the local establishment’s favored lefty protests with busfuls of his brainwashed congregants. He got a monopoly on that gig really quickly; his flock was the only prompt and polite rent-a-mob in town.
He was the local equivalent of HUD Secretary when he broke for Ghana. If not for one meddling kid in the press whose pending expose sparked the whole Flavor-Aid deal, he’d have Feinstein’s seat now.
He is theirs. Very.
Okay, you are right Rob Crawford, the left does embrace lunatics more than the right. But to say Nazis are right wing (like they are a tollerated part of the right) is just wrong. Nazis are their own kind of sick twisted bastards. Nazism is a blend of right and left totalitarianism, tied together with a big string of hate and racism.
Twenty years ago, a lot of LA countries tossed off dictatorships and many of them adopted Milton Friedman’s version of capitalism as preached by “The Boys from [The University o] Chicago.”
But bad habits acquired over the centuries prevailed and democracy was tossed aside in many countries by caudillos and caciques like Hugo Chavez, a nutcase authoritarian socialist, and Evo Morales, a druglord turned politician. A lot of countries in Latin America, including Ortega’s s***pit of a banana republic, simply lost their responsible class of entrepreneurs when Commie dictators and dictator/wannabes like DO took over. Now these losers and incompetents fingerpoint the US as the source of their troubles, when the real reason is their own corruption, incompetence, and let’s just say, not-ready-for-prime-time political temperament. Obambi likes to be liked, and will suck it up just to avoid bad press in the US. His Cuba gambit is probably going to avoid remuneration of Americans whose property was stolen. His Mexican policy will avoid mentioning that Mexico is a crime-ridden corrupt narco-state with violence that has nothing to do with weapons bought in the USA [The 90% number cited by Calderon is a joke—the black market in the Caribbean and Cuba supplies plenty of illegal weapons. And why doesn’t the silly second-rate Step’n Fetchit mention that Canada’s border and hinterlands are not full of criminal gangs trying to push drugs across our border? Just another Carter, and Jimmy overstayed his welcome by 444 days.
Gates of Vienna vs. Little Yellow Coward