Evidently, to oppose the construction of a triumphalist symbol of terrorism Most Excellent Sufi Fun Park! on the site of that terrorism’s permanent scar makes one, well, a terrorist.
Up is down. Black is white. Chico is the Man.
It’s come to this: if we don’t let the terrorists win, the terrorists will have won. And those who refuse to let the terrorists win are themselves therefore terrorists. Q.E.D.
Which, cool. Package up that little bitch for a November push.
(h/t Stephen Gutowski)
You’d think we’d actually have to pay them, exorbitantly, to take this position.
Why am I wondering whether Norah shaves her patch?
People’s heads should assplode immediately after uttering such drivel.
They’re relying on the old stand-by, “we’ve become just like them if we do [x — which is decidedly unrelated].” Unfortunately, that tactic has lost much of its sting, because they’ve over-used it.
It’s a shallow attack; the only difference is, now everybody knows it’s a shallow attack.
I mean, honestly: If you oppose the building of a mosque on the site of an Islamic-fueled slaughter of Americans, you are just like those Islamic-fueled terrorists who slaughtered Americans?
Really?
That’s what they’ve decided to sell?
They can’t see the difference between “you oppose the building of a mosque on the site of an Islamic-fueled slaughter of Americans” ad “If you advocate the government forcefully preventing the building of a mosque on the site of an Islamic-fueled slaughter of Americans”. This is something we tend to lose sight of. We must constantly remind ourselves that the Leftist mindset equates advocacy/opposition to something with advocacy/opposition to government action to promote/punish that something.
Rush is riffing on Anita Dunn’s appearance on Morning Joe this a.m., which I happened to stumble into live. It was appalling. Is still.
It is the whole can/should differential being demonstrated on a large scale.
Oh, yes, as even a cursory stroll around the Usual
suspectswill demonstrate, essays and comment threads alike. They are united and full-throatedly vociferous, and double down (as in the clip you show) whenever challenged.Challenge them whenever possible. We know they’re running low on chips, and the more they pay to support their bluff, the bigger the pot at the throwdown.
Regards,
Ric
Anita Dunn just ratcheted up the vile …
That and exposed her own poverty of thought simultaneously JD. They really are just that dumb.
sdferr – That passes for thoughtful comment on the MFM and the Left, apparently.
But what if I’m calling my male dog by saying, “boy” with unseen melanin-enhanced individuals within earshot? Do the terrorists still win?
WE NEED A HYPOTHETICAL!!!!11!!!
JD,
Or, at the very least, a man in a suit of armor should walk up and whack them in the head with a rubber chicken.
BY SUBMITTING TO HIS WILL AND BY THAT I MEAN THE WILL OF ALLAH THE MERCIFUL AND GHEY HATING YOU WILL BECOME JUST LIKE THE TERRORISTS AND SPLODEYDOPES THAT ASSPLODE IN MY NAME MAKING YOU NO BETTER THAN FAISAL IN HIS FALLUJAH BUNKER YOU WILL SUBMIT BITCHES AND WE WIN
I’m only against the mosque because I’m a Jew, and we do hate us some A-rabs.
Really. If you look past my arguments, you can see the true racism right there on what’s left of my grubby little soul.
There. That about cover it, thor? You can go away again, now.
HOW DARE YOU SULLY THE NAME OF ISSSSSSLAM BY EQUATING ME WITH THOR THAT DIRTY FILTHY LITTLE COWARDLY PERSON WHAT FUCKS UNDERAGE RUSSIAN STRIPPER HOOKERS AND ROLLS IN THE MUD WITH PIGS
OH AND IT IS NOT A MOSQUE AND IT IS NOT AT GROUND ZERO IT IS A COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER TO EXTEND THE DIALOGUE OF THE SPLODEYDOPES TO THE WESTERN INFIDEL CAPITALIST RUNNING DOGS AND GROUND ZERO HAS CHURCHES AND STRIP CLUBS AND BARS IN THE AREA AND OUR HOUSE OF NOT WORSHIP BUT DIALOGUE WILL FIT IN WELL WITH THE LANDSCAPE AND BY NO MEANS WILL ANYONE LOOK AT THIS LIKE A VICTORY MOSQUE BECAUSE IT IS NOT A MOSQUE BUT YOU INFIDELS ARE TOO SCARED TO WET YOUR BEDS WHICH ALLOWS US TO WIN
The next time there’s a high-profile jihadist attack somewhere, and the nation’s Islamic leadership reacts by instantly throwing themselves a pity-party on how mean we are to them, I’ll remember this. Seems like all the sensitivity is being demanded from only one side.
I’m against the mosque because I’m afraid of brown people.
Obviously.
YOU WILL BE SENSITIVE TO OUR FEELINGS OR WE WILL WIN OR YOU WILL BE TERRORISTS AND BECAUSE WHEN WE GET OUR FEELINGS HURT WITH CARTOONS ABOUT MOHAMMED PEACE BE UPON HIM WE CHOP PEOPLES HEADS OFF WITH RUSTY SCIMTARS AND GO ALL SPLODEYDOPE WHILE WHEN YOU GET YOUR FEELINGS HURT YOU WRITE STERNLY WORDED LETTERS
That’s not true, PBUH. We also hold candle-light vigils.
UNCOVERED UNCLEAN NON MUSLIM DRUNK WANNABE LESBIANS MAKING OUT ON THE STEPS OF THE VICTORY MOSQUE I MEAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER FOR DIALOGUE WITH WESTERN INFIDEL CAPITALIST RUNNING DOGS IS A SIGN THAT WE HAVE WON AND YOU ARE TERRORISTS BECAUSE CARIN WANTS TO MAKE OUT WITH DRUNK WOMEN
I’m against it because it doesn’t help the Christian theocracy in which I have bought stock. I want my dividends people.
Tell me about it. I’ve been wasting some time telling people that no, I don’t like it, and no: that doesn’t mean I’m going to unleash jihad to oust the infidels from our holy land.
And the question of whether it’s a mosque? Relevant, in a way, but not in a way that completely eliminates that I think it’s a bad idea.
My dissent is feeling positively claustrophobic, of late.
And here I thought you were against the mosque because mosque-ey people frown on the girl on girl action!
(Outside the Harem, anyway.)
It seems to be the case time and again, the left MUST ignore any valid argument by its opponents, and create strawmen, to support the progressive perspective.
Or, better yet, marginalize the other side by mis-stating the argument or conflating it into someting it’s not.
Once you buy into the belief that your political views are the source of your superiority, rather than metrics of more traditional origin, then any argument against your political views, or their unintended consequences, becomes a personal attack on your sense of self.
Ergo, any dispute between a pragmatic conservative using logic, intellect or real world outcomes isn’t on the same plane as the progressives highly emotional, feelings-based defense. That forces the prog to assume a position of marginalizing the opponent, as opposed to actually intellectualizing the reasoning that refutes their lofty self image.
Once the prog self-reinforce their “superiority” by only associating with the like-minded (“I don’t know how Nixon won, no one I know voted for him”), they assume a tribal based status of “enlightenment” and collectively dismiss any opposing viewpoints as ignorant, rascist or worse. That insulates them from attempting any empathetic attitudes that might generate intellectual curiousity or understanding of the mindset of their opposition.
Damn–I missed Thor again! ! ! Which comment was his?
Where the he** is hf by the way on this?
I am sure the have further PoMo arguments to promulgate. . . .
I have started and deleted at least six different responses to this. I guess I’ll be boring and note that progressives are batshit crazy and leave it at that.
AISHA DID NOT SUBMIT TO FATIMA WHEN SHE WAS NINE SHE LOVINGLY GAVE HER FLOWER TO THE TRUE PROPHET MOHAMMED PEACE BE UPON HIM AND UNCLEAN GIRL ON UNCLEAN GIRL ACTION IS UNCLEAN UNLESS IT IS PART OF MY HAREM WHICH IS FULL OF BURQA COVERED SUPERMODELS WITH CHEST ROCKETS THAT LOOK AMAZINGLY LIKE STINGER MISSILES AND THE INFIDELS DO NOT WANT TO SEE THOSE CHEST ROCKETS
You’re going to wear out your caps lock key, PBUH.
t. I’ve been wasting some time telling people that no, I don’t like it, and no: that doesn’t mean I’m going to unleash jihad to oust the infidels from our holy land.
I don’t think the world will come crashing down should the mosque be built. I think it’s inappropriate. I think it’s amazing that we’re being lectured about tolerance, when this is a rather insensitive act. There comes a point where you just say FUCK THAT. I’m at that point.
Should it be built, I plan to demonstrate my opinion of how inappropriate this is by doing something that makes THEM uncomfortable.
Of course, shouldn’t this liberate us – forever – from caring about how our actions may affect their feelings? “Cordoba” will become a verb.
I THOUGHT I EXPLAINED TO YOU INFIDELS THAT I CARE NOT OF THE WELL BEING OF MY all caps KEY AS MY USE OF all caps SHOWS MY DEVOTION TO MY CAUSE JUST AS WHEN I YELL LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALLALALALALALALALALA LIKE A CRAZED HOWLER MONKEY IN A SAHARAN OASIS OR WHEN NASEEM TAKES HIS SCIMTAR OF DEATH AND BEATS HIS HEAD ON THE BLADE TO SPILL BLOOD IN THE NAME OF ALLAH PEACE BE UPON HIM OR WHEN WE TAKE OUR CHILDREN AND STRAP THE SPLODEYDOPE VEST OF THE 72 VIRGINS TO THEIR CHEST AND SEND THEM ON THE BUS TO PLAY WITH THOSE FILTHY JEWS MY DEDICATION TO THE CAUSE WILL NOT BE QUESTIONED BECAUSE I USE all caps
I have no patience for lectures on tolerance from people who want to tell me how much salt I can use on my mashed potatoes, or what kind of light bulbs are appropriate.
I don’t think I’m alone when I say a lot of people have about reached their tolerance level for tolerance lectures from those who are intolerant of any thing they deem insufficiently tolerant.
Not very tolerant, that.
I wasn’t. I deleted his comments, in which he called me things like “Jewbag,” etc.
I think we need to organize people to stand outside Cordoba House and hand out flyers promoting Greg Gutfeld’s Gay bar “Dialog” (as in “yes, I’m building ‘dialog’.”) as part of the outreach. I bet a lot of people would gladly volunteer to do an hour shift each week helping to build bridges with the Muslim world. Maybe even some off-duty police and fire personnel.
The people thinking of building there need to know this will happen, and it’s terribly intolerant of them to try to stop it.
Jewbag Jeff finds common ground with jesus-bot Darleen on this one, and get all patri-idiotic about fearing a few darkies from the desert. Real Amuricins they are – scared shitless by a few sand niggers!
WE WOULD BE THE FIRST TO VOLUNTEER TO DO SOME COMMUNITY OUTREACH TO THOR IF YOU COULD LET US KNOW WHERE TO FIND HIS COWARDLY ASS
I kinda wish you could preserve thor’s idiotic comments somewhere else, Jeff. I mean, it’s just funny … this is an Obama supporter. LOL.
I still get bellyaches of laughter when I think back about how he argued how fiscally responsible obama was gonna be.
I AM INTOLERANT OF INTOLERANCE
Ah, there he is, as vile as ever.
Wow, thor has really lost his shit apparently.
thor felt let letting his inner racist out today. And, Joooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos.
I mean, delete them from here immediately. They’re idiotic.
JD ran out of capital letters I think.
prolly prolly prolly
(sorry, I’ll stop now)
Jewbag Jeff finds common ground with jesus-bot Darleen on this one, and get all patri-idiotic about fearing a few darkies from the desert. Real Amuricins they are – scared shitless by a few sand niggers!
That is really remarkable. Even a below average person would be embarrassed to say that, thor, a station in life you could only aspire to.
Monster, You can sign me up for a shift. I’ll be a bit drunk though.
I would like everyone to refer back to JD’s 1st Rule of Trolls, and the 2nd Restatement of JD’s 1st Rule of Trolls. This topic has them going absolutely batshit krazy.
Don’t quote and print the shit for cryin’ out loud.
I kind of liked “Heaven and Halal” for the name for Gutfeld’s bar, but I guess “Dialog” wins for pith.
The funny thing, though, is that thor is simply a more profane version of how a lot of liberals think. My blog troll boiled down my objection to the Mosque as fear of brown people.
Honestly, though, it must be liberating to have such limited cognitive skills.
patri-idiotic
Amanda Marcotte just came.
They not only have limited cognitive skills, but a limited outlook on life. I guess that makes decisions easier in general, because the set of possibilities is so very, very small.
Oops, my bad. I did not even think about that, sdferr. Sorry, Jeff.
Gutfeld needs to make his place dog friendly. A constant pack of Welsh Corgis on the sidewalk outside the place would be perfect.
cranky – They go into McDonalds and the young person asks if they would like to have fries with that, and they respond by screaming racist oppressor of transfats and leave in a huff. It is their default position.
Ask Thor about his purchases of GM debt (equity linked debt at that) that he was bragging about about buying a year or so ago, as GM slid into bankruptcy.
The jagoff got both ends of Obama’s cock on that move. Shit I’d probably lose it too (a little).
So how’d that work out for ya Thor, ya fucking genius?
Whose side is thor on these days? He’s certainly not helping the Progressives much today…
Been to Ground Zero? I have. I guess you have no problem with the Ground Zero Burger King, and the Memorial and tower that’s never been built because of capitalists’ conflicting contractual bullshit, a bunch of tacky souvenir tables that profit off of cheap China-made 911 memorabilia and fake Rolexes. Is it honorable to sell that tacky knicknack snow globe where a few thousand people died? Yes, including over 4 dozen innocent Muslims – including NYPD police cadet and paramedic Mohammad Salman Hamdani who as killed while going to the aid of victims in the WTC. You people are pathetic.
Pathetic is a station in life that thor could only dream of reaching. I have the moral AUTHORITAH bitches !!!!
Reading this reinforces my commitment to remain out of arm’s reach of people like thor,Yelverton and the like.
Never mind that violence is the wrong way,I don’t think the discipline would hold. Because of that, there’s no longer any debate or other interaction with these asswipe afterbirths.
Hopefully, a little “goes around ,comes around” will show up before I die.
Commerce? In a commercial center?
RACISTS!
I said good-day, Jewbag — er, I mean, sir!
Cowardice Jeff, cowardice.
If you oppose the building of a mosque on the site of an Islamic-fueled slaughter of Americans…
…then you also oppose building a monument to Col. Tibbets and the Enola Gay at Hiroshima.
Please tell me how the Córdoba center is different; otherwise, I’ll have to assume that you DO support the monument to Tibbets and his plane and will be expecting a donation shortly.
The erstwhile Norse god swings a hammer made of cotton-candy. Ow! Ouch! Cut it out! You’re pounding us!
Cordially…
Greg Gutfeld’s Gay bar “Dialog”
I thought they were calling it “Outfidels” or “Suspicious Packages.”
I think the name changes frequently, dicentra, depending on what day it is.
Don’t flatter yourself, thor. You’re mistaking non-interest for cowardice.
You don’t rate. And I don’t care. This is where we are. I’m not looking to convince you of anything, and you aren’t adding anything of value to my site. So save your breath.
I am not quite sure what a Jewbag and Jesus bot are. I know what a Jesus bag (in which you carry your stuff to church) and a Jew-bot are (very scary cyborgs, ridiculously good with numbers). Perhaps some of thor’s wires are crossed.
I’d forgotten what a whiny little loser thor is. Now that I’ve been reminded, how about he disappears for another extended absence.
It’s an act of cruelty that we are supposed to swallow in the name of our commitment to religious liberty. We may well have to swallow it, but what we don’t have to do is to go along with pretending that a punch in the throat is an act of outreach and we sure as hell don’t have to be quiet about it.
For my part I’d just like to tell Mr. Beinart that equating a vocal dissatisfaction with THIS mosque at THIS location with a war on Islam is a move worthy of a punch in the throat. Well that and the smug head tilt douche face he’s got going.
Look, if the Muslims want to promote tolerance, outreach, and understanding, they should serve as an example and move the damn mosque a few blocks north.
Otherwise, we’re forced to conclude that they are building a monument to their fiery victory over the infidel and that we’re right to suspect their motives.
This sudden defense of Freedom of Religion kills me utterly. I’ll repeat it in this thread, too: for decades, the LDS Church hasn’t been able to site and build a temple in the U.S. without being blocked at every term by howls of protests and a flurry of lawsuits to stop it BY THE VERY SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE DEFENDING THIS MOSQUE AGAINST THE EVIL BIBLE-THUMPING CHRISTERS.
If they didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.
Why so cranky, thor? Putin cut off your supply of Russian whore punching bags? The absolute icon of ingrateful, dishonest trust fund pricks is giving a morality lecture, fucking priceless. Just when I thought I couldn’t think any less of your pathetic ass.
And yes, an Islamic Center belongs anywhere that zoning allows, BECAUSE THIS IS AMERICA, it’s not fucking Japan or Saudi Arabia.
Then I expect you to show up at every single LDS temple site and demand that we be allowed to build unmolested BECAUSE THIS IS AMERICA.
I won’t hold my breath, thor. If a temple were going up in your vicinity, you’d be the guy passing out the clipboard with the petition to stop it.
Effing hypocrite.
This.
And having such strong feelings doesn’t make you opportunistic of necessity, either.
Which one can point out at his or her own risk.
Just trying it on for size.
And if they build that mosque there, I have every right to say this is just one more sign that my opinion that most moslems are insensitive, intolerant pricks bent on ruling the world is the right one, because this is America.
Why do you put the rights of Arabs above mine?
JewbagJeff finds common ground withjesus-botDarleen on this one, and get all patri-idiotic about fearing a few darkies from the desert.There we are. You reflexively take whatever position opposes that of people you reflexively hold in contempt. If the wingers were foragin it.
If we were merely “fearing a few darkies from the desert,” then we’d protest every single mosque in the country, wouldn’t we?
Or is that kind of consistency too alien for you to comprehend?
If the wingers were for the mosque, you’d be agin it.
Foiled by tagging.
Not long before the new TV series “Chico and the Man” was announced, I’d seen a rerun of an episode of “Sanford and Son” in which Gregory Sierra played a neighbor of Fred’s whose pet goat, Chico, kept getting into the junkyard and, I guess, eating Fred’s inventory.
So imagine my surprise and disappointment when “Chico and the Man” premiered and the goat was nowhere in sight. Eventually Freddie Prinze won me over though.
LDSIslam subverts women and forceably rapes chldren, besides being based on a crock of shit (like all religion but even more preposterous).So maybe you can object to the mosque now?
Or do you wanna come over to my side of the monitor and see what this “subverted” LDS woman can do to a coward like you?
dicentra beat me to it.
83 for 81, as I am not a woman.
Oh well, I suppose it is time to found the Randall Terry Institute at the Scott Roeder Right to Life Center, which I intend to build on the site of Dr. Tiller’s former abortion mill.
Sauce for the goose . . .
I guess following Progglogic, the Pope should have told the Carmelites to stay outside of Asuchwitz…it would have been the only caring thing to have done.
I would feel pathetic… if there was a Christian church two blocks from Mecca.
#76 – Jeff, nice fit – just watch the union protests….took how many years and recessions to get the City of Chicago to allow even one location inside its borders…?
LOL! If there were a market for cognitive dissonance and acute stupidity thor would own the fucking world.
I think we should maybe start a pool to see which Lefty prime-time drama chooses to make a commentary on this current affair the way Boston Legal and Law & Order used to do.
I got dibs on “The Good Wife.”
Hmmm, yet another thor smackdown. Head on out to the lobby and pick up a bucket.
Wonder if he’d like to discuss that ripping yarn about the “alienation of labor” and such?
I’m thinking “Lie To Me”. Makes a certain kinda sense too…
When dicentra’s cat finishes your most recent thrashing, thor, you masochistic little dog fart, give me a call. I’d like to go over Barack Antoinette’s remarkable country-galvanizing rise to record-setting popular acclaim.
Now now. You all know that they only hate us because we hate them for hating us enough to kill several thousand random citizens. C’mon now. If we could just get over that and get back to them hating us and us pretending they didn’t hate us this would all blow
upover.Do they really think voters are that stupid?
They’re all just jealous of her toned arms, JHo.
Haters hate.
Oops.
Finanshul jeenyuses papering the doublewide with GM stock could not be reached for
lucidcomment.Do you really need to ask?
Norah O’Donnell better be grateful she’s got a pretty mouth and a cute ass, because she has absolutely nothing between her ears.
What, too strong?
You know, somehow I guess that is going to become the trollish talking point (note how Willy/Kim was trotting out the first draft in an earlier thread) but I just don’t see it really gaining any reaction other than derision. It’s just too stupid on so many levels.
I’d never heard of a Jesus bag until today. Familiar with the Jesus nut though; it is the prime reason I avoid helicopters if at all possible.
how is this a fun thread?
how is this a fun thread?
In the same way as Whack-a-Mole is a fun game, ‘feets.
I’m against the mosque because I’m afraid of brown people.
Obviously.
I’m afraid of white people who thought they were voting for Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact
Heh, thor is still a brain-dead hicktarded loser, as always. He’s probably still butthurt over the beating he received at Dan’s blog last week.
When dicentra’s cat finishes your most recent thrashing
Choose my weapon:
This catty or this one.
Oops! No luck with Teh Kodink today.
When dicentra’s cat finishes your most recent thrashing
Choose my weapon:
This catty or this one.
Rauf’s a sufi? Got anything other than a generic link to wikipedia?
It’s pretty clear that the trolls are worried.
Because, of course, there is no Islamic radicalism and terrorism amongst Sufis. Ever heard of Somalia and the Islamic Courts Union? Moron.
Hey Raoul!
Do you remember the part where no one argued that the Ground-Zero Mosque is unconstitutional or illegal?
Maybe you can explain to us why it is appropriate to build the Córdoba Center where landing gear and body parts fell.
“Welcome to the Cordoba Community Outreach Center! All boys under 11 please report to the “Rumpus Room” in the basement. You’ll get your outreach there.”
Willie the racist hilljack Wikipedia-plagiarizer once again makes a fool of himself.
NPR offers this curious construction
Hmm, the preservation of the tax rates wasn’t on their list huh?
Oh, so it’s just a big kinda Islamic Fun City / water park kinda deal?
My bad, then.
Plus, I think we can all agree that saying “Sufi” is just really really fun.
BREAK OUT THE SHOVELS, BOYS! I’M SOLD!
pretty sure the ginormous deficit is on people’s minds a little bit too
No way they’re gonna talk about the war though, it’ll all be building codes and which side of Park pl. north or south and look out there’s a bunny over there right there see it?
I was just thinking that since there are already a ton of mosques in NY and it is kind of known as being Diversity City any way, that an even better place for an outreach and educational center would be out in Shanksville PA were flight 93 went down.
Those ignorant hicktards are probably seriously in need of a good muzlem education.
Well, that would be this, dicentra.
Raoul is just the latest example of the libtard mindset Monster pointed out. If you don’t like the idea of something that means you must want it outlawed.
But don’t dare call them fascist.
Does bumblefuck want to be able to say that Team R regained power on a wave of Muslim hate? Is that why he popped his cocksucker mouf off now?
Looks like NPR is open to that read.
Nothing surprising about that NPR construct, the first two items are an acknowledgment of reality, and the second two items are Obama’s chosen strawmen. So of course NPR is going to try to steer things back on script.
will the mosque have a place to kill goats?
Raul Xan isn’t even a good liar. Must’ve come here from oliverwillis.
I don’t think immigration is driving 2010 that much at all at all really.
nobody said there would be cabrito
That any good?
that whole sufi thing from Xan was a not-very-subtle dogwhistle for the nishitbot.
ot oh my a flaming skull with blago hair
http://minx.cc/?post=304758
cabrito is very very tasty it’s like pulled pork goat
Right now most people aren’t paying a heck of a lot of attention to the war either — less, I think, than immigration even — but when the Democrats go into the minority in the House and especially if they go also in the Senate they are going to be going apeshit about the war. The pied-Levin is only a tiny foretaste of what’s coming.
sdferr – You are absolutely correct that after 4 years of benign, or not so benign, neglect, once Team R is in charge, the leftists will resume their howler monkey impersonation about the just war in Afghanistan.
Maybe that’s the solution. I wonder if they’d be willing to compromise and open up a fancy halal taqueria el cabrito instead.
Name it the MuzzyMex and I’m there.
there’s already a Cabrito restaurant close by…
brb
I must be hungry because I was just wishing they’d open up a franchise near me.
here
Moctezuma’sFalafalRevenge?
Okay, later, guys. I have to go get a burrito or something.
I was planning carbonara for dinner, but now reconsidering that choice…
moe’s goat should have a prominent place at park51
How about We Got Your Goat.
Mexican place just opened near my house. Cocula is the name.
I kid you not.
http://www.labambaburritos.com. I cannot attest that there is not goat/cat/horse in them, and don’t really care, as the Super Burrito is a slice of heaven.
Sounds like a bad spoof prono, no?
So that’s why the goat wasn’t in “Chico and the Man!”
Yeah Tancredo is hugely popular with
ConservativesRepublicansLibertariansTea Partierslibtards and the media.Is it too much to ask for even one troll that is both coherent and honest?
#151 – The server charges extra for that.
– Surprised no one thought of calling it “My pet Goat”
“hussein’s got your goat”
– Did the Left just blink?
– The Dems are going to need any wins they can get, just to remain a viable party.
This Rauol thingie is rather thick, no?
Coherent and honest? You’re smoking crack again, aren’t you?
Jeebus. Teh Won had one of the candidates he endorsed, out of oh so many, get a win, and the squirrels shout if from the rooftops.
Please.
You busted me. Damn.
oh noes leaky leahy got problems
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/244025/e-mail-len-britton-rich-lowry
“….(I was on the varsity debate team at the University of Vermont)…..and let me tell you….We’ve got cherry stone clams and Eastern seaboard lobsters absolutely nailed….Ayah”
So, meya/RD?
jeffg if i sent money could you require trolls to be life forms?
He’s the latest iteration of the plagiarist midget mascot of MTSU, no doubt.
The funny part is that just dropping the names Tancredo and Palin on the sort of left leaning blog Rauol likely frequents would give him the kind of reaction he is dying for here. Knee-jerk magic words to get the regulars howling about the evil right wingers.
speaking of failshit little countries this has a lot a lot of data but I guess the key number is #13
I am not sure, bh. Fucking lying twit, to be sure.
This election season is AWESONE!
It’s like the left has political Tourettes Syndrome; they know they shouldn’t say such inane things in public, but their filters gone and so they keep performing verbal seppuku on national TV.
I no longer have to imagine what the left’s political self-immolation would look like…because it’s happening right now on YouTube!
Even the boring old trolls know it. And the implosion of International Socialism makes them sad.
I am well informed enough to know that Tancredo and the Colorado gubernatorial race don’t have jack shit to do with the national contests that matter to me this year.
But hang on to that little straw for dear life, if it helps you sleep better.
someone should get a video camera and tape everything and put it on youtube this is my plan and it is mine
– The New York Archdiocese says that the city has been slow rolling and waffling for uear’s on issuing the needed permits to rebuild a church destroyed at ground zero.
– They point out, and rightly so, that the church was already there and would not constitute a “new build”, as would be the case for the Cordoba house.
– They’re asking why the Left is so active and protective of Islamic rights, while they totally ignore the rights of other denominations.
– Any of the trolls want to field that one?
Frito bandito – alas that is likely not William the plagiarist Yelverton. His style is rather distinctive.
also yeah I don’t get why that chart is so spelling-challenged
164 sounds almost like timmy.
mr. drudge has a story about the victory mosque maybe moving away from the ground zero
You’ve got very few days to set that Reichstag on fire, trolls.
Which one of you is going to step up and light that match?
Those flaming distractions from the incompetence of your Dear Leader won’t light themselves on fire, you know.
– Posted the link upthread feets #156
I don’t really understand this idea where NY state helps them find a place for their stupid mosque on state land… I’m assuming they swap for the other property?
thank you Mr. Hunter my boss bought me a printer last year and he wants me to set it up so I can scan something so instead of reading all the comments I have to make room on my desk for the stupid printer
religion & state, religion & state, religion & state.
I think the idea would be that the printer generates content for the filing cabinet I don’t use either
– Well remember what mom said about having an accident – you don’t want to be caught with dirty undies or missing hard copies.
this is true plus I found my friend P’s senseo cup he’s been looking for that
Why does the left always side with the Islamists and against the church?
Death-cults of a feather stick together. It’s a short hop from abortions to stonings to mass graves. Good little National Socialists know how to perform all three.
The church is always going about free will and God, two things that make leftists quite ill, and Islamists quite angry.
All the trolls start sounding alike to me after a while. It’s as if they are creating a singularity of stupidity, asshattery, and douchenozzlery.
it’s a rather substantial hop from the abortings to the stonings really you will need good shoes
Yeah. November 2001.
a twofer if you stone a prego
That appears to have been the plan, ‘feets. Which is a judicious exercise of Gubernatorial influence, if you ask me.
– Stoning is too good for the Proggs, and too fast. I want to watch them suffer for the next decade at least, once this mess they’ve created is cleaned up.
ok I wonder if once the state has the mosque property they’ll want to revisit the designation of historicalness
makes morons squeal
Squidbilly?
– The city can stop anything instantly by imminent domain. It’s all political rubbish.
what about the orthodox church’s property?
after they move the mosque everyone can go get noodles together
there was a fatwa against the world cup squid
chinese noodles?
I was thinking of these ones where I love to go when I’m in Chicago it’s very austere but tasty… they don;t have them here or at least nowhere in my zone
i’ll have to noodle it
New York State can swap land with the Islamo-fascists without violating the church/state issue because liberals and mullahs both worship at the same altar.
That would require Bloomie, and he’s busy memorizing Sura.
^^ s ^^
Rd
Oooh! It’s lemony fresh in here!
Who’s the troll-namer that can name the trolls?
Recognize.
Yea. Everything’s gone gone gone.
It’s just not fair. I’ve been doing the mom-taxi thing on and off since 3. I miss all the good stuff.
Gotta go. AGAIN. 8 y/o finishes soccer at 8:30 and 15 y/o then gets picked up from football.
we know your carbon footprint
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/244036/moderate-his-dads-mosque-rich-lowry
sharron angle is the nut people
Actually the alien vote may be a factor this year, Obama seems to be campaigning on another fucking planet.
Is your shirt unbuttoned right now, tapeworm? Head cocked thoughtfully to one side?
BMoe,
Remember the golden days of two newspapers and three channels? That drivel Obama spews would have been reported as fact by a dutiful press corps*.
Hell, the trolls on PW could have qualified as political scientists back then! Tragic how far the little useful idiots have fallen is such a short time.
*pronounced “corpse” by the way.
“What’s clear [even to me],” Obama continued, “is that we are [not] heading in the right direction. Just a year and a half ago, the economy was shrinking rapidly. Now the economy is growing [even worse]. We were bleeding 750,000 jobs each month. Now the economy has added private-sector jobs [lost] for seven months in a row [and I am less popular than body lice].”
There. Fixed it for his speech writers.
Check this out. I made it two pages, will probably try again tomorrow.
Laughing and gagging at the same time can be tiring.
I loves me some proggy self-destruction. The question is why anyone would stake out a fringe position and dig their heels in here – where they’re intellectually overmatched – when there are a few hundred million other people who think they’re idiots right now. One gets less a sense of conviction and a desire to persuade among our trollbots than of yet another example of their uncontrollable urge to masturbate in the public square as a form of witless performance art.
Trolls needa reel in their tiny wee wees. It’s cold out tonite.
Jeez B Moe, I can’t make it past the drawing.
Filppity flip floppity watch, Day 5. This clown makes the Keystone Kops look like Dirty Harry.
Reveling in all yer many victories, no doubt.
you are a “reality based” life form no?
I’m still confused
Wait, so the administration is contending that Obama’s position is strictly a legal one (Constitution!) yet it’s perfectly fine and understandable to disagree with that?
That has to be the oddest contortion yet, Pablo.
Obama stands for the Constitution and the rule of law! Yet, he’s cool if you don’t.
This is pure messaging genius.
Ain’t it, bh? It’s like political Special Olympics.
Is Bloomberg planning on running for office in Palestine after his Mayor gig is up?
I’m still confused
That might be the only honest thing Raul Xan has said here ..
Bloomberg is angling for a job in the Sestak administration I think.
stupid taunts hurt my head.
that’s all you got is bs at this point no?
Stupid trolls hurt my head.
Dan Riehl delivers a justifiable thrashing to Morton’s kid.
Raul Xian is more dense than lead. Come on, we know you are dying to call us racists. Let it out. You will feel better.
If I thought Raoul was smart enough to understand a search function, I would recommend he search Tancredo on this site and maybe he might realize what a buffoon he is being.
But I don’t think Raoul could find smart if it were stapled to his dick at a peep show.
If I thought Raoul was smart enough to understand a search function, I would recommend he search Tancredo on this site and maybe he might realize what a buffoon he is being.
Self-awareness isn’t an option. It believes what it needs to believe because its politics are not the product of thought so much as part of a lifestyle. Like the witless snark, the clothes it wears, its diet and everything else in its sad wittle life, they have been chosen for it. It thinks it has arrived at these choices as an independent thinker, but they all do. It’s part of the great high school do-over for dorks where they re-imagine themselves as the cool kids by virtue of mutually re-enforced mindless conformity.
Twenty bucks to anyone that can read the B Moe link at #214 without swearing it’s a parody of leftist Obama boot-licking.
It’s so awful even the trolls will be ill, and hell, they’re on barry’s payroll.
I am embarrassed for the writers entire family who will have to pretend it does not make them want to kick his ass come Thanksgiving.
A budding wrestling enthusiast tackles the tough issues.
Don’t play coy with me, indeed.
Cliff notes: Barry has a hard job that no human could do, not even a sooooper-geeenius like him, but he is really, really, really, trying super hard!
You really are pathetic.
How can there be anything to mistrust about this super mosque? They’ve changed their name to Park51, which sounds like a disco. And they’ve got a Twitter feed.
LOL! Tell Rahm we just found one of his fucking retards!
you are no longer part of the solution, you’re the
problemprecipitate.FIXED!
JD,
I think this Raoul character is part of the Osmium family, as far a density goes, working his way to advance to black hole status.
I denounce myself.
Black hole?! Are you fucking kidding me? The NAACP is going to be all over your ghost white honkey ass.
New lefty theory: Obama might be a one-term president because we’re too darned rotten to appreciate him
YES! WE! CAN!
We are too stupid to appreciate the greatness that is Teh One.
Raw-ool: It’s customary to provide a link when you quote someone.
I just convulsed so hard I almost hit my head on the desk.
And apparently Obama’s new slogan is Let’s reach for hope!
Seriously. The dude’s a fucking genius, you know.
I liked Hotair’s comment about how Teh One’s new slogan is “My mindless slogan is more inspiring than your mindless slogan”
And I cannot stand hotair.
Now worries JD,
That fucking racist credit card, issued by the Jesse Jackson Bank of Racey Racism, and carried by all good leftists, is so far overdrawn that the card has been cut up and the bank is scheduled to be razed. Not even the whole of the U.S. Treasury can bail that bank out now. Heh.
Do the lefties ever ask Obama if he’s comfortable with the bukkake treatment though, or do they just let him have it, like it or not?
Obama will be a one-term president because he’s to rotten to appreciate how great a nation America is.
– I’d like to remind all you perverts this is NOT a family blog, so keep it dirty please.
It’s an implosion and we’re watching it in real time. It’s fascinating, and eminently enjoyable…unless we do something stupid like get in his way.
Hmmmm…let’s ask Mitch Daniels about torturing brown folks at Gitmo!
The Squidbillies meet the Religion of Peace(tm). Hey! Unknown Hinson does the voice of the main character.. What? You’ve never heard of Unknown Hinson?
No comment really. Just wanted to blockquote it.
Crap, I’m still confused
Hey, but it’s ok.
I’m ok, you’re ok, we’re not to sure about me.
I see Raoul @236 has managed to beclown himself yet again.
Here’s a hint: the all-caps thing? Not serious.
Here are some more posts of that type.
BEHOLD!
what!!?? so PAT BOONE ISN’T MY MASTER!? no wonder I’m feeling depressed.
Of course, RD was not searching for understanding, he was searching for bait.
How’s meya doing, jackwagon?
Read the original and the comments. It enhances the beclowning.
– I think we’re all smelling blood in the water. Should be mondo entertaining in the coming days.
– There are finite signs, (the Gibb dustup, various Lefty blog sites moody and discordant writing, MSM not quite staying on message), that Bumbblefuck is going to try to move even closer to the center, the old rightward movement dodge. Politico is outright encouraging him to do that, talking about what’s expedient and smart, rather than ideologically right.
– All of which signals he’s accepted the Dems are in the poop, and anything he would do at this point just makes it worse.
– The dog days of summer, and smoldering Proggs in the air.
Have you ever been witty by accident, Raoul?
BBH, somewhere in my Faux Noise trance, I saw Bob Beckel trying his damndest not to cry over the approaching Democrat disaster. I giggled.
oh looky, I was off enjoying the day with my family and genetic-deadend thor shows up to spew a bit of jealousy-enduced nonsense.
Dude, if you’d just take my advice you’d already be swimming in sweet softball trim right now. Do you think I say these things because I hate you? No, I give you rock solid counsel because I feel sorry for you.
This one seems desperate, positively desperate, to tie Tancredo to everyone here. I wonder why that is.
– The Sherrod Juggernaut rolls on.
– Only in THIS America.
coughmeya/rdcough
Truly awesome title, Jeff.
Tom Tancredo probably reminds the troll of the daddy whose expectations he could never meet.
I miss Shirley. Are we gonna get video of Shirley and Mr. Jealous? That would be fabulous.
There are two unnecessary words in this question.
And the revised version now has Olivia Newton-John singing an earworm. Where did I put that icepick?
So, Tancredo can count on your support, Raoul? You got a problem with Latinos?
Probably not. They finally got ger quieted down, so press coverage will be minimal by design.
So Raul is another one yearning for a Final Solution. Or is yet another troll sockpuppeting after having been banned multiple times.
Ed Gillespie!
Sorry, I just really enjoyed that thread.
Oh gosh, such a tough one…… who would I choose…..
Let’s see …..
Obama:
1) 16% unemployment
2) Deficits so insane supercomputers are required to calculate just how fucked we are
3) $41,000 for a Hot Wheels car (track and battery charger not included)
4) Being called RAAAAACIST!!! 24/7
5) Wishing we lived in a nicer country…like Zimbabwe
Any Republican Candidate:
1) 4% unemployment
2) Freedom
3) Not being Zimbabwe
– They should project this on the wall behind Bumbblefuck at pressers, as he describes all the gains we’ve made in the past few months.
I cannot remember where I saw it earlier, but someone said they hoped nobody would tell Teh One what comes after a trillion.
– You know I saw Gillespie on the tube today, and it occurred how much he looks like Howard. Creepy.
– That’s on the T-shirt of the week JD.
This is apparently very important to you, trolly thingie.
– All the good players must be offline from WOW tonight.
Tom Tancredo must occupy the troll’s thoughts 24/7. Yep, no obsession there.
Got it. So, who’s your favorite Goldilocks now — based on this terribly important wedge issue?
Van Jones, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Anita Dunn, Soros, anyone from SEIU brass…
…they’d all put an end to this situation REAL fast!
You are all haters what hate the other! And stuff like that.
As it turns out, I’ve been drinking quite a bit. So there’s that.
The Twins beat the Sox in the bottom of the tenth with a 2-run home run. Woohoo!
OK — That doesn’t make any actual sense, but kudos for sounding exactly like a Sean Hannity teaser bump.
She’s a Beck girl, you idjit. But kudos on continuing your projection by way of throwing out mindless boilerplate lefty “zingers.” Got any other good ones for us?
The Twins beat the Sox in the bottom of the tenth with a 2-run home run. Woohoo!
Brett Favre returned to Minnesota yesterday. Boohoo!
I do indeed — every article ever composed on the tiny loser begins with the standard disclaimer about his towering intellect. Making everything that follows a veiled slam on the reader.
Ergo, Obama is simply smarter than three hundred ten million people. You’d think some appreciation would be in order, you ingrates.
When did “intellect” come to mean “ego?”
I’ve a theory that Barky sees being elected as the end-all, ak4mc. What follows is this running vacation we see playing out nearly weekly. There is zero Hope™ for a second term because there is no desire for one, and there’s no desire because there’s no need.
It’s political martyrdom, oddly enabled by that massive ego. He made the summit two years ago and now he’s beating us all to the punch. Folks ask why he doesn’t get whatever it is he’s not getting. The question never, ever went to understanding. The question always went to motive — the far left, being wholly parasitic, instinctively knows it has nothing in the toolkit; it knew it ran on the take from whatever table was still producing under their mob. Hope & Change was election year rhetoric that even the left knew was bullshit.
Anyway, it’s an idea. Maybe Ogabe served his motive in the 2008 election. Today there’s simply nothing left for the Democrats to do but lie and steal — both of which are plainly obvious — to get through the day.
That, and Washington DC is a pretty hard community to organize.
#294 Almost there, JHo.
I’ve never had any trouble understanding Obama. Predicting is another thing, but my early life-experiences were eerily similar. I’m moderately bright, and have had enablers who passed me on that basis rather than my performance; the result is that I never had to learn to “dig in”. I expect things to be easy, and when they aren’t I fold; and I never quite follow through. You can see it on my blog. When I post one of my brilliant analyses, I expect the country (Hell, the planet) to go “Oh, wow, this guy’s got it, we need to start implementing right away!” Of course what I actually get is 200-hit peaks and no comments, and I sulk and slack off and don’t post, and nobody puts it on their daily check-it list.
The difference between me and Barry is that I ran out of enablers a long time ago, whereas his are still enthusiastically pushing; therefore he’s President and I’m a schlub. He still expects that when he issues a Masterful Oration™© RegUsPatOff the result will be everybody thunderstruck: “Oh, shit, why didn’t we think of that?” followed by a scurry to get the Obvious Rational Program put in place. When that happens he’s amazed and disappointed and goes golfing (and sulking, though he has learned enough to keep his lower lip from quivering, as have I).
It’s not “ego” as the term is properly understood. It’s “self-esteem” run amok — I observe that it is perfectly possible to have an ego that can bear the slings and arrows of outrageous criticism and come up swinging without having the self-regard that assigns all error to the critics, and since my enablers went away I’ve had to learn at least the rudiments of that. Encouraging “self-esteem” gets you people who don’t know what they’re doing but are totally sure they do and are always gobsmacked when they fail; doing it to stupid and/or ordinary people gets you irritants, but doing it to bright people gets you monsters if it goes too far.
This is the main reason Mensa is a joke, and why your boss probably isn’t as g-smart as you (or some of your fellow employees) are. A person of ordinary intellect who’s been challenged learns to overcome and succeed; a person of superior intellect who’s never been challenged learns to retreat and whine. On the rare occasions when you get a bright person who’s had to overcome challenges, you get a game-changer. Trouble is, us bright guys tend to assume we’re game-changers whether we can actually do the work or not. Yes, you could find a worse President than Baracky; yr. obt. svt., for instance. I’m a disaster at anything involving leadership or executive ability, but I still have fantasies of owning a magic wand that would make those fools do it right! If you find one, don’t give it to me, OK?
The same, if a trifle weaker, applies to the Proggs at large. It’s probable, in fact highly probable, that the median Progg is, in fact, significantly g-brighter than the median non-Progg, but they’ve only been competing against one another rather than trying to apply their insights to all of Universe instead of a limited subset. The result is their entertaining notions that are, as has been said, so stupid only an intellectual could believe them. It’s pretty much the same as somebody who sets out to break the bank at Monte Carlo because they’re a killer at Windows Solitaire.
Regards,
Ric
It’s pretty much the same as somebody who sets out to break the bank at Monte Carlo because they’re a killer at Windows Solitaire.
My vacation plans are ruined.
Ric you nailed it. I understand Obama because I’m related to folk just like him. Non-agreement with their pronouncements are merely and indication that I am simply to stupid too follow his brilliant thinking.
Obama simply tries again and again, complaining that he’s failed to convey “his message.” Then, when we’re not in attendance, he calls us names.
I feel ya’, Ric. ‘Cept I opt for whining.
Of course, we’re coming at all this from the circumstantial evidence, and while learning Barky’s character by example is useful, the question that remains is that of motive. Having granted salvation of a uniquely devilish kind, is Teh Won all Cloward-Piven and shit.
Ric describes an underlying character set in the little man that may run on the passivity of incompetence — the house doesn’t get painted because the painter’s out on the sidewalk speechifying about housepainting. I suspect that while that passivity may explain the deer-in-the-headlights thing Obaprompter conceals so very, very well, there’s a malice — a competence — that if it doesn’t describe his moves and shakes, certainly does those of his Democrat enablers.
The problem is that the same circumstantial evidence more than suggests Captain Kickass Vacation has more on the ball than free fare on Air Force One. This is where we caution each other against assuming the best in about seventy-five days, against pointing to (the lack of) ability, and urge that we, as the serfs in this regime, check how much of this evidence points to a malice aforethought.
Incompetents screw stuff up. So do those who fully intend to screw things up. Given the sum total of our amassed circumstantial evidence, which are innumerable factoids, the clear trajectory of the polls, and now the left’s recent visible implosion of even a semblance of reason concerning their Saviour, it seems we have a growing body of data that asks what further harm a demotivated President might do before the end of his only term.
If Barry set out to be elected, validate whatever ringing Holiness needed validating, and serve that one monumental, galaxy-restoring term, he’s succeeded. In that one term, how much of this ruin is mindlessness and how much is entirely mindful? Back to the data we go.
What do the controversies around the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, the eviction of American missionaries from Morocco earlier this year, the minaret ban in Switzerland last year, and the recent burka ban in France have in common? All four are framed in the Western media as issues of religious tolerance. But that is not their essence. Fundamentally, they are all symptoms of what the late Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington called the "Clash of Civilizations," particularly the clash between Islam and the West.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, at the WSJ. For the haters.
Obama accomplished everything HE wanted to accomplish when he completed the oath of Office. The rest is just more of the empty vessel for others to work their agendas business that has characterized his whole life.
Noemie Emery seems unable to withhold the acid. An appreciation:
Well, he’s got something that’s towering, and if it’s not his ego then I guess he’s just a huge prick.
/cheap punchline
Oh, and I couldn’t keep quiet on that Noemie Emery piece:
I like the ego/hyper-inflated self-esteem dichotomy. Ego is “it’s not bragging if you can do it.” Hyper-inflated self-esteem is “you know I can do it, I know I can do it, so why should I have to bother?”
You miss the point, JHo.
There’s the social-science version of Sir William’s shaving tool: “Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence”. Trouble is, there’s an odd form of incompetence that looks, on the surface, like competence or even hyper-competence — somebody who’s got the theory down pat and is facile at explaining it and promoting himself can do a lot of damage before the rest wake up and realize that the theory is just f*ing wrong.
That (plus the press of events at that particular moment) is why I didn’t get involved in the “Obama is a good man” controversy. Of course he is! — if a “good man” is a person with good intentions and a firm-to-unshakable commitment to accomplishing them, coupled with a Complete Theory™ and roadmap showing how to get there.
Most all of us expect — in fact, assume — that the villains will all be Auric Goldfinger, knowing and comfortable with evil and prepared to do the necessary to accomplish it. In real life it rarely works that way. Louis L’Amour said, There’s no stopping a man who knows he’s in the right and keeps on coming. For true horror, all you need is such a man who isn’t in the right despite deep surety that he is.
I fleshed out my comment a bit on the blog.
Regards,
Ric
I’m moderately bright, and have had enablers who passed me on that basis rather than my performance; the result is that I never had to learn to “dig in”.
I could say that I’m lucky to have avoided that trap. But really what I should do is thank Mr. Stahl, my tenth grade algebra teacher who would not let me slide by and forced me to dig in and really earn it. I like to think it is because he was a sharp judge of character, and a caring teacher who recognized my intrinsic value.
Yeah, well it gets me through the night. And either way he was a class act who forced me to learn how to work hard at learning.
#306 Ernst: Almost there.
Strong ego is this didn’t work; figure out why and try again without feeling degraded or inadequate;
Hyper self-esteem is if this didn’t work it means I’m a lesser being, and that’s impossible, so it must be being blocked by Inimical Forces™
Regards,
Ric
Hyper self-esteem is if this didn’t work it means I’m a lesser being, and that’s impossible, so it must be being blocked by Inimical Forces™
See also: Rohypnol; abuse of, Masturbation; excessive
Strong ego would likely eschew a teleprompter and instead opt for learning to perform well as an extemporaneous speaker.
A priest once told me that most everyone will have a decent stretch of miserable struggle here on earth and that you should simply pray that it happens when you’re as young as possible.
I pretended he was talking about the ’82 World Series rather than the obvious and he let me. Good guy.
Yes, ThomasD. Strong ego starts out I’m not a good public speaker and need to learn it, then progresses to I can’t do this any more than I can lift a 500-pound rock, so I need to hire somebody, all without feeling beaten down.
Regards,
Ric
“What a fatal talent [the verbal virtuosity of the intelligentsia] can be in obscuring, rather than clarifying rational analysis.” (Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society, 20)
“Of course, we’re coming at all this from the circumstantial evidence, and while learning Barky’s character by example is useful, the question that remains is that of motive. Having granted salvation of a uniquely devilish kind, is Teh Won all Cloward-Piven and shit.”
I think many of his supporters and handlers may be Cloward-Piven types, but Obama seems more the useful idiot to me. Even if the C-P strategy worked, nobody is going to admit that was the plan all along, so Obama will be seen as a failed President. I don’t see him willingly following that path.
I’d describe that as megalomania, myself, or accute narcissistic personality disorder. Hyper-Inflated Self-Esteem isn’t quite that far down the narcissistic personality curve for me. Maybe because in my own experience with what you’ve described, I’ve chosen to accept the fact that I’m a lesser being instead of blaming it on They and Them.
Ric, I can’t miss the point when I present the only two variables you just did — incompetence and malice — as variables subject to ratioing by a further analysis of the data.
I don’t deny Obama has his own stars in his eyes — anymore than you’d deny your ascribing everything* to ignorance out of the fear you’ll chalk something up to willful harm — and I said as much in this thread. The problem is that the evidence increasingly suggests that this is not the whole of Obama’s reality. Of influence.
We do? See, therein lies the problem: Cartooning limits the field of harm, doesn’t it? Would you propose that a Soros or a Ted Kennedy or a C. Rangel or any of a dozen indicted and/or convicted politicians probably in the last 12 months alone operate on a sterling but blind ideology or would you tend to believe they operate on pure self interest, denying the obvious effects?
Real theft, chronic deceit, proven fraud. These aren’t Hollywood villians; they’re flesh and blood thugs and they’re in those positions because of it.
*Sure, that’s a generalization. But if you typically leave the seven deadly sins out on the curb and point to mindless groping to explain human trajectory, you’re going to keep coming up short. It’s not and please don’t.
Of = or
Much of what you see JHo Obama may himself not be consciously aware of. Remember he is more a product of the left than any sort of true leader or great thinker. He was chosen and elevated based upon his being judged a proper vessel, one that might be successfully sold to the public.
So to be sure it is all baked into the progressive cake, but at a very deep level. The left recognizes some of the corruption that you mention, but are not concerned (and refuse to hold themselves accountable or judge themselves guilty of hypocrisy) because they see it as a tolerable side effect of the greater good of destroying the current system.
The American people must be broken of their affinity for free markets and liberty. Those who are already suffering are seen as being one step closer to salvation than those who persist in their efforts to perform in today’s wealth and achievement focused world. But rest assured, those people will be fully taxed in due time, and will come to see the error of their ways.
Progressivism really is a religion and it really runs that deep, and that far counter to American tradition. A nation founded as much in commerce as in liberty for we were, and have always remained a nation of commerce more than just about anything else) is anathema to their ideals. That is why they so willingly make common cause with those who plainly oppose us and call us their enemy.
Oh, laugh riot. I predict that our friend Raoul will only be heard from again under another handle.
I’m in the “yay” camp on that as well.
Ric et al: I think the element you’re missing is that O! has never had to meet any standards in his life. He’s the quintessential Affirmative Action hire. He’s even worse than most, because not even his grandparents who raised him could tell him anything. After all, they’re “typical white people” who couldn’t really have his best interests at heart.
Cranky-D, my weeping is one part joy at no longer facing (or at least minimizing) the prospect of starting Tavaris Jackson, one part frustration that Childress evades ownership of that debacle for one more season. and one part autonomic response, having spent 90+% of my adult life rooting against the hated Packer. Nevertheless, I can’t shake the feeling that the man was fated to end his career throwing a conference championship losing interception. Last season was lightining in the bottle, and the fates don’t like to be mocked.
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I’d like to see significant advances in the treatment of migraine myself.
I am happy that Fav-ruh is back. That way, we can be assured that when the Colts meet him in the SuperBowl, he will throw yet another horrible interception to lose the game.
I’d like to see significant advances in the treatment of migraine myself.
I’d like to know how many concussions Harvin’s had since his Jr. Varsity days.
I am happy that Fav-ruh is back. …when the Colts meet him in the SuperBowl, he will throw yet another horrible interception to lose the game.
If history repeats itself, Favre will be replaced by (God willing) Sage Rosenfels in the second half of the season.
For my part, I look forward to the day when Peyton, like Archie before him, winds up his career in MN. I hope Da Bahrz are kinder to Peyton than they were to his father.