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Very dangerous Barry. George read a book a week. I think he was trying to gain knowledge.
You know, not reading so that he could tell people what he was reading. Only a pompous tool would do that.
His lips move when he reads.
Baa haa haaaa …. Headline over at Huffpo:
Barack Obama and the White House woo The New York Times
Gee, do you think it will work? Will obama win over the NYT?
Carin, with just enough hard work, persistence and a little luck…perhaps so.
Oprah thinks she’s the Queen of All Media, with her book club and whatnot.
I’m Barack Motherfucking H. Obama, bitches! I got a book club too. But I thought this “Netherland” thing was about Michael Jackson, not some Dutch motherfucker.
They are currently deep throating him without him even grabbing them by the ears, or asking nicely. Wooing them?
You think the Huffpo writing was smiling when he/she typed that? I mean, HONESTLY.
In other snarking, behold one of the 100 hottest women of the US. I only wish I could look as toned as she …
sigh.
I haven’t been called a racist in at least a week. I’m feeling unloved.
Carin, that pic has gotta be the 2000’s answer to this. Hubba hubba!
Carin you are an unabashed racist. Consider yourself denounced. And condemned.
I noticed, Pablo, when I was stalking you the other night you had picture of Michelle up on your wall.
JD, thanks. You don’t know what that means.
Step 1: Sneak up behind Herr Islamo-Nazi, bonk him over the head and steal his gun and ammo.
Isn’t it cruel to make fun of institutions like NPR suffering from emphysema? I mean, living in an addictive world of smoke and mirrors does take its inevitable toll. Even a gent as strong as Baracky has trouble kicking the habit.
#7 Toned physique – Great expectation, perhaps? It’s possible.
One book…One in several months..?
Booooosh! read hundreds while in office; and still executed his duties…
Who’d really intellectually incurious..?
But, I mean, when you’re like a god, floating above us all, I guess you know everything already…
I mean, he did go to Harvard…
And, you know what they say; you can always tell a Harvard man, just not much…
I wonder if Obama’s favorite authors will sell more than Oprahs..?
Events like this seem more fun than the Oprah book club.
they haven’t nuked your trackback.
Like you care Dan.
Its just muslim on muslim action…so what?
Could you be any more vapid, nishi?
Mighty multi-cultural of you Nishi…
And so very empathetic…
Oh, maybe I misspelled that last word
Read somewhere that “Bo Obama” will be making an appearance in Marvel’s “Pet Avengers.” You guys think the new york times is in tank, fricking Marvel did an entire issue about Teleprompter’s Jesus’s election and he’s been popping up as a guest star in other issues.
Apparently, Obama is now in contention to wear Spiderman’s old black costume.
Someone found the first draft of the booklist in NPR’s garbage:
Month 1 Das Kapital
Month 2 Mien Kampf
Month 3 La Mia Vita
Month 4 Quotations of Chairman Mao
Month 5 Reveille for Radicals
Month 6 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The rest appears obscured by a black stain, possibly Coca Cola.
Meanwhile, Jews need not apply. Might offend the Iranians. Andrew Sullivan silent on his demigod voting present on this one…probably because Ross is not gay.
Nah, he’s all educated. He’ll put Marcuse in there somewhere. Eros and Civilization probably. Sex sells.
“#Comment by Carin on 6/15 @ 12:27 pm #
Could you be any more vapid, nishi?”
Yes.
Yes she can be.
One of those doesn’t fit, Kevin B.
Seems to me that your Messiah did everything he could to run away from Muslim on Muslim violence while the Bush administration did everything it could not to, and in fact didn’t do so. The One? I’m glad he failed.
Anyone else disgusted with the imputation that we don’t care about the fate of liberty? That we don’t give a rat’s ass whether tyrants fall?
I am Rob…
But, you know, that’s dangerously close to questioning the judgement of our dear leader…
And probably raaaacist! too
Well, it does say the only work of fiction. Let’s hope he’s reading up on nonfiction…you know…reality… which will be quite a surprise from where he was coming from.
Be disgusted, Robbie, and just go ahead and cry like a tutu-wearing bitch. It’s all good.
The O! revolution has started and the now fires burn for freedom and justice.
You people go ahead and sully up your XL-belted diapers with disgust, shout to yourselves of how smart Boooooosh is/was, such a huge book reader, Rush says so, and Glenn Beck boils, boils himself until he’s pink in the face at the mention of Obama!
Rage on.
Don’t mind me. I’m making preparations to meet happy people at a happy hour and then hit a poetry reading. And you know how these anti-social poets attack, high-flying eagles fall from the sky every time they stand in front of a microphone, oh, how they tear at the tits of bare breasted French women with postmodern spatial fury! I think at least one Eternal Creator of the Universe will hang from the gallows tonight, but he’ll probably flutter his butterfly wings as he swings.
Peace, revolution and bloody coups!
I’m making preparations to meet happy people at a happy hour and then hit a poetry reading.
You are a fucking wild man, aren’t you?
A nicely placed pingback, Mr. Collins.
Poetry reading?
BAH!
You call the unwashed, unshaven, bourgeois, phony intellectuals and the local Starbucks a poetry reading? What are you pondering, the underlying nuance of Dr. Suess, thor I am?
Well, an all blond hippie chick orgy would cap off an otherwise staid Monday night nicely, I’ll admit that. Don’t think that’ll happen until hump day, unfortunately.
Tried that once. Had a hell of a time getting the car up the steps to the place, let alone through the door. Everyone inside thanked me for my efforts, though. Apparently they’d have been stuck there for hours more if it hadn’t been for the gasoline leaking from the fuel tank.
Confess, bourgeoisie!
You’re only trying to impress the freshman Bristas! I’ve said a million times that the young ones are only trouble, and will only make you more miserable than you already are.
“Rage on.”
Don’t encourage them. Obama’s already been threatened more than BOOOOOSH! in his eight years of flatulation practice, and there have been two political assassinations by WingNutters (don’t even ATTEMPT to distance Limbaugh and Gingrich from these loons)whilst they fan the fires of SECESSION libertarians claim to eschew, because they aren’t Republicans.
They don’t need to be persuaded to go sub-human.
Don’t mind me. I’m making preparations to meet happy people at a happy hour and then hit a poetry reading.
You sound so excited to get out of the house. Enjoy Applebee’s and the strip mall Barnes & Noble poetry you backwater bon vivant.
Maybe President Zero could read a book on why his “Stimulus” bill didn’t work.
It’s obvious Zero! already read “Money Launder for Dummies.”
I’m actually reading at a poet mic night tomorrow, so tuck the kids in early and lock down your wives.
My natural bulge is so pronounced that the spotlight creates a shadow that sometimes impregnates women several rows into the audience. Chicks dig that.
Now I must go and ponder the endlessness of the bars.
Oodles.
Speaking of president Obama and books…
So my daughter gets into this supposedly model public school here in Los Angeles. It is a relatively small school that goes from 6th to 12th grade(my daughter will enter as an 8th grader). The student population is roughly 30% white; 30% hispanic; 20% black; and 20% asian. This weekend there was an orientation. Of course we researched the school beforehand; one of the thing we found out was that there were parent groups in place based on race. Well, except for a white parent group of course — not that I would want one. Anyway, at the orientation I wanted to ask if having these various groups helped or hindered integration. My wife said she’d kill me if I did.
But at the orientation one of the speakers informs all of the parents present that our children will be given a book list to read over the summer. However, none of the books would be required reading except one: “Dreams of our Fathers”. Upon hearing this, my wife shoots straight up out of her chair and B-lines it right to the principal, who was standing just off of the stage near the side door, to ask “What the hell?”
My daughter will not be reading “Dreams of our Fathers” this summer.
Speaking of subhuman, cleo, how they hangin?
So Iran is on fire. < See what I did there? Meaning, where the blazes is Obie? Where is that cheap little man anyway?
Sorry, that should read “Dreams from my Father.”
I’m guessing Obie’s of insufficient character to issue a definitive statement on Iran. Shame, what with the tide there turning and such.
Or maybe it’s the nuance.
Howie;
It’s a riot when yer kind uses adjectives like ‘cheap’ and ‘little’ to describe someone else. It’s also amusing when you think a country on fire is, apparently, light-hearted and humoours.
So what’s with Obie and Iran, thor? Go on.
Hang Glider — coulda been worse. They could have required a weekly report from the students on what their parents said about the Glorious President Obama.
Some excerpts from the book here:
http://openlettersmonthly.com/blog/microreview-netherland/
Looks like he can’t even pick out a decent read.
humorous
Oh, nice diversion, cleo. Transparent but opportune.
So: People are dying for freedom in the O!ppression that is Iran. Where’s the damn US president?!
Better?
There’s an inherent nuance to silence, I’ve been told…
Of course, if it were Boooooosh!, it would be due to stupidity or indecision…
Besides, since Obama’s Cairo speech, peace and democracy is all the rage in the middle east; didn’t you hear…
You mean you don’t think it’s humorous?
It’s serious, then?
Most people, I find, have the good taste not to inflict their poetry on an unsuspecting world.
If the mullahs are tossed, Obie’s gonna have to deal with a country hostile to his preferred means of government.
But, unlike Jimmah Carter, he can’t come out and say that.
“They could have required a weekly report from the students on what their parents said about the Glorious President Obama.”
C’mon Rob, you know that requirement doesn’t apply until they become full fledged members of the Obama youth…
It’s optional until then…
Maybe the Democrats have finally perfected the media and everything from mass protests in the US to mass protests in the mideast is, like, as fictional as the President’s nightstand. You, cleo?
…there have been two political assassinations by WingNutters…
Aren’t you usually supposed to calm down after you win an election?
, “if it were Boooooosh!, it would be due to stupidity or indecision…
Besides, since Obama’s Cairo speech, peace and democracy is all the rage in the middle east; didn’t you hear”
Well, haven’t you hear it’s not WHAT you say but HOW you say it? BOOOOOsh just misunderestimated.…
Revolutions tend to be. Except, apparently, to Democrats.
Ogabe is voting present on Iran, he’s too much of a boot licking coward for anything else.
Comment by Semanticleo on 6/15 @ 1:58 pm #
Do you speak English?
Are all these people going completely off the rails, or just our trolls?
“Aren’t you usually supposed to calm down after you win an election?”
Yeah, but yer people LOST……violence is merely the impotent counterpoint to a meaningful discussion.
In the US, Democrats enslave people to debt, the third largest federal expenditure. For this we can thank an empty, bankrupt ideology that can’t even define itself.
In Iran, Democrats enslave the people to apathy, the Dems most cowardly act so far this term. For this we can thank an empty, bankrupt ideology that can’t even define itself.
So much rage in this particular moonbat.
“#Comment by Semanticleo on 6/15 @ 2:07 pm #
You mean you don’t think it’s humorous?”
What, the Iranian thugocracy murdering Iranians?
No, no I don’t.
But you do?
Why DO you hate little brown people so?
Can you define the left, cleo? What’s it all about? What’s to recommend it? What underpins it and gives it merit? Go on…
…and join thor, drunk somewhere in a Miami dumpster.
First selection of the month.
Sometime rage is good and cleansing, Abe, like a good keelhauling through six miles of coral. Especially the blind, meaningless kind of rage that doesn’t know itself.
BOOOSH!
“So much rage in this particular moonbat.”
Is it rage or is it MEMOREX? We don’t respond well to the conservative anasthesia. We prefer, like my beloved Lakers, to play full court press all four quarters.
NOBrain — ‘cleo gets the same amusement from the struggles of the Iranians as any other sociopath gets from the struggling of a helpless victim. Remember, ‘cleo wants to reinstate slavery; the mullahs are his kind of people.
I am not sure if Semiliteratecleo meant the Iranian opposition or the GOP with this comment.
President Bush read boob after book after book while in office.
O!bama has read….one?
Always have and always will. It’s in the bylaws of the Party.
Are all these people going completely off the rails, or just our trolls?
See Ted Rall. The cognitive dissonance is getting to them — The One announces a surge in Afghanistan; The One turns his back on young people in Iran; The One’s election fails to stop two domestic Muslim terror plots in the last month; The One decides he likes wiretaps; unicorns fail to graze on the White House lawn, etc, etc.
Sounds like rationalizing the rage miss cleo. It’s your natural state because you’re a hater and a sad little person trying ton fill the hole in your soul.
Book after book after book………
BAD FINGERS! BAD!
Go explicate the shit specks on your butt plug, P’Brain.
“Can you define the left, cleo?”
Here’s a little red meat for Howie who missed his morning feeding at the zoo.
Let’s start with REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH. Everyone stand back, the spittle cometh…………
cleo is exactly what cleo thought/said leftist-cleo hated: Let the people burn out of adoration for their Dear Leader(s). cleo is firmly pre-revolutionary in all the best meanings of the words hidebound partisan stercolith.
“#Comment by Hi, I’m thor on 6/15 @ 2:20 pm #
Go explicate the shit specks on your butt plug, P’Brain.”
Shouldn’t you be out stalking a playground or something?
“I think at least one Eternal Creator of the Universe will hang from the gallows tonight, but he’ll probably flutter his butterfly wings as he swings.”
What in the world is that supposed to mean…
Is it some kind of attempt at edgy, artistic, expression..?
Sounds kind of autistic to me…
But, I’m just a God-bothering hater I suppose…
“Comment by Semanticleo on 6/15 @ 2:21 pm #
“Can you define the left, cleo?â€
Here’s a little red meat for Howie who missed his morning feeding at the zoo.
Let’s start with REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.”
Oh. You’re a thief.
thor’s regained consciousness just in time to defend Obie. Go on.
“fill the hole in your soul.”
Did you buy yours back yet. I think I saw it on Ebay. Bids remain within yer reach if you can make it to the crapper before you dirty yer Depends.
Save just one diaper a day for a week, and redemption is yours.
thor, do you suppose Obie will yet come to the rescue of the oppressed and downtrodden? The victims? Those under The Man’s thumb?
“Is it some kind of attempt at edgy, artistic, expression..?
Sounds kind of autistic to me…”
Naw, he’s just drinking the rubbing alcohol again.
Mean people suck and cleo sucks the most of all the mean people I think.
Save just one ideology a decade for a lifetime, cleo, and redemption is yours.
none of this is surprising of course, as we all know.
the Dems are the party of not giving terribly much of a crap about freedom, under the guise of realpolitik.
the GOP, to be fair, has recently been the party of lets talk a good game about liberty and then launch a few wars and see the whole business about 60% through.
As much as the GOP disgusts me at least they pay eloquent lip service about the defining issues of human identity.
Gee, seman and whore are just fascinated with shit.
I wonder why?
I thought you were at some revolutionary poet society event, or something like that, thor…
What’s with the Hegelian stuff?
And all the bulge talk; will your shirt be unbuttoned to your waist also? That’s sooooo 80’s!
I thought loose fitting jeans were what the fashion forward crowd was into…
We prefer, like my beloved Lakers, to play full court press all four quarters.
Yer new shoes too tight? That why you so pissed?
“cleo is exactly what cleo thought/said leftist-cleo hated: Let the people burn out of adoration for their Dear Leader(s). cleo is firmly pre-revolutionary in all the best meanings of the words hidebound partisan stercolith.”
Let me say it for you N’OB;
Do you speak Engrish?
OK, I give. If thor and if cleo can’t salvage leftism, who can? What’s Obie got up his sleeves, waiting for, for, for maybe just a good speechwriter?
I’ll give him just forty weeks and forty months to commit the miracles we know are in there. Save the Iranians, Obie. Save the Americans.
“at least they pay eloquent lip service about the defining issues of human identity.”
Eloquent to you, maybe, but that may be too low a bar to measure effectively. Kudos for the self-effacement, though.
It’s supposed to make you feel, ponder, and burn at your bones a little.
Do cannibals save bones for soup? Ponder, discuss.
Racist. And a blind racist, apparently. You’re the semantic lion, cleo, you figure it out. Ignorance only counts in the race for dependency.
Next: Your definition of and justification for leftism. Go on.
Do you speak Engrish?
Asian slur!!!! Cleo is a hater.
All of this presupposes that Mousavi lot is going to be different than the Ahmadinajad regime.
I am not at all certain that it would be and that our CIA and Diplomatic corps, if given marching orders from Mark Steyn himself, could navigate results towards a more stable, pro-western posture.
Comment by Hi, I’m thor on 6/15 @ 2:30 pm #
Back to the playground, whore.
You can eye up the little boys.
Comment by Semanticleo on 6/15 @ 2:09 pm
Well, haven’t you hear it’s not WHAT you say but HOW you say it?
Redistribution of wealth and a cult of personality, JHo. ‘Cleo would probably be on the DinnerJackets side if he were Iranian.
KKKleo’s PRE-traumatic stress disorder is acting up again. Scary.
“Do cannibals save bones for soup? Ponder, discuss.”
Lmao. That’s far too deep for the assembled masses.
Oh, fuck off.
Thanks to the goddamned press declaring defeat when we’re barely started, it’s nearly impossible to get through that missing 40%. But, hey, it helps Democrats and other tyrants, the press ain’t gonna stop.
Obama sighed, people died.
He read a post 9/11 book and it made him sad. Perhaps one day someone will wright a book about these events in Iran, and Oprah and Obama can feel sad again.
It’s supposed to make you feel, ponder, and burn at your bones a little.
Then you fail. Again.
So is leftism, cleo. Most of us see it as a fraud.
So. Go on. Define. Justify. I’m starting to think you’re a cheap empty suit.
A cheap, empty, matching suit.
“you figure it out”
I am a racist. So are you. So is everyone else. The difference is;
I know it.
no, Cleo, Bush’s speeches were as generally well-prepared and delivered as anything Obama has come up with. He made a thorough and important case for individual freedom. Obama merely has a more polished delivery and speaking voice to many American ears, or at least, to my many colleagues at Time and the NYC papers I worked at, who helped people like you formulate your worldview.
Its the Bush-era policies you and many others had a beef with.
say it again: Words=one thing, policies=another.
#113 isn’t what I asked, cleo, and we both know it. Are you a dishonest, lying racist then?
Nice to see our State Department can stay bought:
Well, if Dan cared he link Sully and Huff-po. They have superconnected coverage.
It the blogverse was modelled as a social network today with brightness corresponding to influence and hits, Sully and Huff-po would be supernovas, and the rightside blogs…….dim bulbs.
Do you despise the greens because they are young or because they are devout muslims or or because they are academics?
HAHA
all of the above right?
Conservatives are so isomorphic with Nejad….you all hate young people, educated people, and real muslims.
“It’s supposed to make you feel, ponder, and burn at your bones a little.”
Well truthfully, it mostly leaves me scratching my head…
I guess I just don’t appreciate the whole “religion is the opiate of the masses” outlook…
Semanticleo and thor go on a date.
thor likes to spoon.
JHo — ‘cleo’s a wannabe slave-taker. Do you need to know anything else?
Nah, you fuck off.
You and your hick-dumb thundering, fuck off.
Can’t figure out why those people won’t fear Jesus and fuckin’ act white! How’a comes their country don’t look like Ohio! Sumpin’s wrong wif ’em.
You got a dick for a brain, hick.
Given their propensity to associate with their like kind (and to frequently eat the rest) I think animals are probably racists, cleo.
Oh, and now nishi’s decided to play name-shifter.
Fuck it.
Do you despise the greens because they are young or because they are devout muslims or or because they are academics?
HAHA
all of the above right?
Conservatives are so isomorphic with Nejad….you all hate young people, educated people, and real muslims.
It’s no use changing your name, Nishfong, the stupid shines right through.
:” Words=one thing, policies=another.”
Truer words were never spoken, but all you have revealed is your opinion.
I gave Bush two years to reveal the essence of what he is. try doing the same for Obama.
“I am a racist. So are you. So is everyone else.”
Well you can count me out of that sterotype cleo…
You know neither me, my upbringing, nor my circumstance. And, I resent the label you so cavalierly affix…
It may fit into your identity poitics mindset, but you are sooooo stupid applying it willy-nilly…
Using a shougun when the target calls for a sniper rifle…
I am a racist. So are you. So is everyone else. The difference is;
I know it.
Well someone who finds someone pondering whether cannibals use soup bones to be deep is clearly operating on a higher plane of consciousness than the rest of us. Deep, smaaht and rage-y, that’s cleo.
I am not as dense as you cleo, it doesn’t take me two years to figure out the obvious.
You’d give oatmeal two years to reveal the essence of what it was.
Nishi changes names more often than the LA Clippers coaching staff.
So what.
She cool.
And he freed millions of people from tyranny and, in the process, apparently pissed you off so bad you’ve gone insane.
I think that says more about you than you’d like to admit.
Has Obie done any of the things that earned him you vote, cleo? Was servitude to debt via Big Banking part of it?
No? That wasn’t the hope for change thing? Hmmm.
They have neat schizophrenia refills in these aluminum cans down at the 7-11, thor. Go and ask for one. 48 ouncers are the best value.
“Using a shougun when the target calls for a sniper rifle…”
A spray of shot is more likely to hit a target that’s difficult to see…
say like, yer self-perceptions
Whereas Copperhead Democrats have been the party of slavery in word and deed since 1800. From the plantation to the collective to the madrassa…..
The left is self-destructing, as they always have, as they always will.
Requiring students to read trash like Dreams of My Father is just sad. When you have to force people to accept an ideology, it becomes self-evident that there is something wrong with that ideology.
You following this action, Cleo?
https://proteinwisdom.com/pub/?p=2850
Want to lay odds on Obama backing up Bush. Again?
Props on your zing, JHo.
Peace and art, party pebbles.
Until I come home aftah drankin’.
“Was servitude to debt via Big Banking part of it?”
Boooooooosh was the head chef in charge of the kitchen when Reaganomics finally hit the wall. Don’t shoot the Messenger.
You an I outta go have a few some time, thor. You’re alrite by me. Bent in the brainpan, but fun.
Blah, blah, blah. Who cooked up fiat money, cleo?
Oh, don’t want to deal with it? Right. Then shut up.
Bobby C. takes off the gloves!
sorry RC, but the Bush-era screw-ups in Iraq post ’03 are Bush’s and fall on him. If Iraq works out, then some future historian will be serious enough to award him the respect he deserves. It might even work out that Iraq serves as a major counterpoint to Iranian expansionism and terror exporting, while balancing out Saudi Wahhabism.
But we all watched as week after week as Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan told us that everything was ok and that troop levels were fine in Iraq and the hundreds and then thousands dying and being wounded were helping put Iraq on a right course. Well it was BS Rob, totally. If it wasnt for Ordinero and Petraeus, Iraq would be bordering on Somali-like. yes, I know Bush ordered “the surge” but it came pretty late in the game. I argue it needn’t have been that late.
The media has collapsed and died and what it comes back as is anyone’s guess. Perhaps many of them will even be good at what they do.
I think Dan and Jeff have my real name. If you knew it, you could see that i was covering the one unlimited success the Bush administration had in the GWOT–terror finance, where they are applauded for both a nimble touch, persistance in the face of global opposition and a certain intellectual creativity.
Thanks for writing.
“Want to lay odds on Obama backing up Bush. Again?”
You must have trust issues with Obama. Lincoln also had issues with fellow Republicans in Congress. Must you take delight in every bowel movement?
I take delight watching the smoke come out of your teenie little pinhead every time Obama sells you down the river.
I argue it needn’t have been that late.
The dudes that were there said it couldn’t have happened any sooner. Nothing personal, but I tend to believe them.
You got nothing, cleo. Seen it before.
Bye!
“I take delight watching the smoke..”
It doesn’t take much to entertain you. try basket-weaving.
Like mcgruder, I’m not clear the “youth party” would be a huge improvement for our interests, but Michael Totten does make a good point:
Khamenei, if he survives after defeating Iranians who bravely stood up and said “death to dictatorship†to his face, will be in no mood to compromise with diplomats who are afraid to speak up from thousands of miles away.
The dudes that were there said it couldn’t have happened any sooner. Nothing personal, but I tend to believe them.I agree it wouldn’t have been as successful without the Anbar awakening as well as the Iraqis finally confronting Al Sadr. 50 million freed in Afghanistan and Iraq now we have Ogabe voting present on Iran, Another zero for Ogabe’s resume.
In a column in the New York Times by Robert F. Worth and Nazila Fathi today they refer to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a “conservative”. Who knew? It’s in the Times so it must be true.
my nom du jour is supposed to reflect my mood.
Im a wirehead like Sylvie today..sampling data on a hundred twitter-feeds and a dozen blogs.
The world is changing….and as usual conservatives are dragging their………… feets.
lol!!!!
Miss KKKleo said “I gave Bush two years”
That is a fucking lie and you are a fucking liar.
But I was floored when you actually admitted you are a racist. Good on ya. Too bad it took you so long to figure it out.
Yup cleo’s correct-amundo……. Bush baked the failcake.
Changing the frosting wont make it taste any better.
Thats why conservatives are headed the way of the Whigs.
From nuggie’s link, the one that douses conservatives in the old preemptive leftist holy water:
Code for cowardice.
You’re late, nuggie. You fail. Way ahead of you. Typical.
that was a long lunch what did I miss?
Hey now the media not Bush is the failcakebaker I know cause I listened to NPR during Katrina but before it was official state radio and it was then right at that moment they decided what the heck we can lie and lie. After that they explicitly, using actual words and stuff, they said the global warming debate is over.
Our little country is very very diminished just cause of that and now we have Chicago Street Trash and his skeezey woman doing officiatings.
Halp!
I remember NPR going all cold with fear immediately following 9/11. It lasted 6 weeks.
Then, back to business.
“Miss KKKleo said “I gave Bush two yearsâ€
That is a fucking lie and you are a fucking liar.”
And you know this HOW, moron? I started commenting on blogs in 2004. So you just display yer hillbilly education when you speak of things you don’t understand…understand?
How many times does this “meme” have to be nuked. The, so called, surge was mostly a change in tactics that could not work unless and until the Iraqi people had finally decided that the Al Queda and ex-Saddam thugs were actually thugs and not their salvation. That that took more time than thought going in is true but there was nothing we could do to speed it up.
The society in Iraq had been more damaged by the Saddam years than anyone knew prior to the war. Adding more troops to the situation would only have made us the occupation in perpetuity. That was not what we wanted Though the Left by saying daily that we did, likely made the process take longer than it should have taken.
what people forget not naming any names but it’s sad what people forget.
What people already forget is that it used to be it was a taken for granted given that our little country was no question about it supportive of the brave Iranian students what have courage and a belief in liberty and freedoms.
Now it’s all where does the U.S. stand? As if that were a perfectly legitimate question, which, it is not.
For those of you wondering what brought Semanticleo and the other trolls out of the woodwork, check it out.
Regards,
Ric
“How many times does this “meme†have to be nuked”
You can’t ‘nuke’ anything with yellowcake, even if, as Nishi says, Bush bakes the Failcake, then pumps it up with air when if falls in the oven
of civilian incompetence pimped by the Joint Chiefs.
Where exactly does “Semantic leo” come from? Because it doesn’t apply.
Wow. I’ve seen metaphors mangled before but this is the first murder.
“check it out.”
Nice try Ric. Didn’t see that one. As you may know, a Polls results often reflect the format and tone of the question and questioner. About as reliable as eye-witness testimony. Heavy, heavy semantics are weighed in this environment.
You mean weighty, right?
Weighty semantics are heavy in this environment. This continuum. This event horizon. These neutroneosemantics are escaping velocity.
My god, it’s full of stars.
KKKleo there you go lying again, you know that poll is the truth. Because if it weren’t you lefty fascists wouldn’t have to try and hide your real agenda, You have to lie to get elected that is a fact.
Shorter cleo: Gallup got that decades-long reputation publishing bullshit.
“My god, it’s full of stars.”
You mean, you wish you’d said it?
Do you realize how utterly predictable you’ve become? Whenever you show up here, I always know to look for something like that.
If it weren’t credible you wouldn’t be working so hard to stamp it out and/or take attention from it.
Regards,
Ric
“Weighty semantics are heavy in this environment”
Howie;
You can’t hear yerself cry in space and there’s no gravity in space so nothin’ weighs nothin’……………..
Ah, no.
Defend leftism, cleo.
Go on.
The hits just keep on coming.
“If it weren’t credible you wouldn’t be working so hard to stamp it out and/or take attention from it.”
Well it’s obvious yer cohorts think it’s important. They haven’t stopped talkin’ about it.
And mass is for Catholics, bh…
Iowahawk has another excellent lambasting of the lefties today.
Although common sense is such an anathema to the left, it’s hard to tell where truth ends and parody begins.
Heh
Heh, JHo. ‘cleo scares me sometimes. Just imagine, just a stroke or two and that could be any of us.
‘Defend leftism, cleo.”
We’ve had nearly thirty years of this Reagan crap about how ‘deregulation’ and Voodoo Economics is the crowing rooster of modern society. Well, we had to give it a chance because the Voter saw Reagan as a ‘regular guy’ who meant well and told good jokes. They wanted to give his ideas a chance. Well, now it’s time to give Obama a chance.
That’s as close to a definition of modern leftism as yer gonna get, howie.
There’s lots of gray tones in the Party of Obama. Hell, there might even be some Reagan and Bush ideas that can work, although i suspect it would look like some sort of Rube Goldberg machine when it emerges.
I’ll give you this cleo, you never fail to disappoint. Just like the guy you elected president.
Gee Cleo, such erudition.
Fail.
Running reports from Iran at nicacINsight. The reported shootings are covered in the top post at 5:26. Iranians who are wondering why Obama has spoken out on their behalf may be beginning to understand that he has made a choice and it isn’t them.
Obama still voting present.
present!
Sorry, hasn’t spoken out
BOOOSH!
But don’t let me disguise my gratitude. See, what you’ve admitted, cleo, is that (1) you wouldn’t know conservatism if it bit you, and (2) naturally you have nothing to recommend the ideology based, if you think it through, on some level of envy, theft, and corruption. Sorry I loaded the question like I did, but thanks.
The tension isn’t between parties, dimwit. It’s between authority and freedom. And on that note, is O!bie making us freer? Think money, cleo.
Damn straight.
A real politicoeconomic system, like any other ecology, will always be chaotic and seem internally contradictory in many ways. That’s why Ric’s Rule #1 is “It ain’t that simple.”
Simple draconian measures never work as expected, and when they work at all they generate side-effects that tend to overpower any success they manage.
Regards,
Ric
And gravity, Ric. In space.
Speaking of natural vs unnatural systems, if you look even remotely closely these days, the evidence of economic success slipping daily thru Obie’s clutched fingers grows.
Seems every time they try some manipulation of one sort or another, the market goes and makes an adjustment elsewhere. Today the UAW gets a gift, tomorrow twenty thousand union employees lose their jobs. And so on.
Reality simply is, cleo. Power politics denies that.
“And gravity, Ric. In space.”
Now, Howie. Don’t make an orphan out of YOUR metaphor. ( I know you don’t want to display any qualities you abhor.)
I especially liked that “no gravity in space”, JHo…I don’t even want to begin trying to explain…
The stupidity is strong with that one…
#172 cleo.
Next cleo elaborates on how the sun heats the earth through millions of miles of ether, Bob. Because of the vacuum.
Howie…….Hallooooooooooooo………..
Weighty semantics are heavy in this environment. This continuum. This event horizon. These neutroneosemantics are escaping velocity.
My god, it’s full of stars.
I’ll probably wish I hadn’t…But…
Cleo, why can’t you hear yourself cry in space..?
Because the movie slogan told you so..? Hollywierd is soooooooo educational and realistic and all, y’know..?
Do you try to be this utterly vacant, or is it natural..?
Howie will eventually deny he ever said anything good about conservatives.
Space is dark, but its not empty.
Comment of the Day: People realize he’s “all Barack and no bite.â€
Probably howie didn’t, quantum mechanist.
The ether..!
Rayleigh was right!
Congrats, Howie. You’ve become everything you always hated. (conservative success)
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Thanks Ric. No wonder the lefty trolls are running around with their hair on fire. The left really are masters at self-destruction.
How so, cleo? Go on.
KKKleo should get some help with that PRE-traumatic stress disorder.
Lebanon. Bush supported freedom.
Obama? Obama is quiet. crickets.
Why isn’t Obie speaking up, cleo? Are you incapable of seeing what’s going on or just frightened?
#202 ghost: It’s something to watch for. Semanticleo, in particular, never shows up here unless there’s something at least potentially damaging to the Left running around the blogosphere and/or the media.
It may surprise at least some people that I consider Obama correct to keep his mouth shut re: Iran. That’s because the Iranian people know full well that they have Carter to thank for the mullahs in the first place, and I doubt seriously they’d welcome “help” from somebody cut from the same piece of cloth.
Regards,
Ric
Amen, Ric. Where the Leftist asshats decide to make asses of themselves says as much about them as what they actually say.
“How many times does this “meme†have to be nuked. The, so called, surge was mostly a change in tactics that could not work unless and until the Iraqi people had finally decided that the Al Queda and ex-Saddam thugs were actually thugs and not their salvation. That that took more time than thought going in is true but there was nothing we could do to speed it up.”
Geoffb,
Agreed, I had the duty of reviewing the Anti-insurgency draft document at my last Command and recall that the changes in tactics were evolutionary in principle.
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Thank you Danger, and thank you for your service to this great country. I wish you a good tour and a safe return home.
Thanks Geoff,
I’m always a little amused by the Monday morning quarterbacks who think that the surge was way too late as if the had some kind of crystal ball the could predict how events would be different if something was done differently.
It is quite possible that the Iraqi’s would have seen an earlier surge as an occupation attempt thus creating more resistance instead of the cooperation we are currently experiencing.
oops
as if THEY vice as if the and crystal ball THAT vice crystal ball the
Sorry, it is getting late here
Isn’t it cute? thor’s got him a little pet!
I get a little miffed at mcgruder – but I think it is mostly stylistic – “left undone” just connotes something incorrect to me. If peope in the Admnistration were wrong or did something incorrect, so be it. But “left undone” sounds like we just sat and watched or deliberately ddn’t do anything. But he is way better than the “there was no plan” types. At least they muttered themselves out…
I might assign a bit higher percentage too.
Of course, the President was perfectly willing to say he would have been well content to let the Iraqis rot. And the NYT was ready regardless of genocide. That is change the Iraqis would not want to believe in.
Just remember, you HAVE TO PASS THIS STIMULUS BILL BEFORE YOU EVEN READ IT OR THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT IS OVER!!11!1! Iran…well, we just don’t know enough yet. Wouldn’t want to be hasty dontchaknow!
Close, darnit!
State Department refuses to condemn crack down.
I guess they need to keep their options open. Present. Nuance.
Ah, but why look back when we can look forward, Colonel? WE HAVE TO PASS HEALTH CARE REFORM RIGHT NOW OR WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE AND THE ECONOMY IS GONNA COLLAPSE!!1!!eleventy!!1!!
Letterman apologizes for Palin.
Maybe one day Obama will apologize for being quiet over Iran.
…a little pet!
Named Lap Dance.
Lap Dance
Bobby C. takes off the gloves!
Flyer pussy.
How do you sleep?
Us? This way.
You mean, you wish you’d said it?
You know what’s a scream?
Cleo’s confused at having to play defense for President Government. He/she/it’s used to playing “full court press” offense against TEH BOOSH GUBMINT. Unfortunately, there is no more TEH BOOSH GUBMINT or TEH RETHUGLIKKKAN KKKONGRESS on whom to affix the daily fear, doubt, frustration, hatred and ennui that is characteristic of the typical Obama supporter.
And as such, Cleo confuses jealousy with pity.
I, for one, larf.