Overheard at the local coffee shop, 8:55 a.m.
First overweight lady: “Have you tried the biscotti here? The chocolate macadamia?”
Second overweight lady: “Yes. Delicious. You’ll love it. In fact, I think I’ll have a piece as well, now that you’ve reminded me.”
First overweight lady: “We’re being so bad, aren’t we…?”
Second overweight lady: “I guess. But we may as well enjoy it now, while we both still have jobs and money enough to pay for it, right?”
First overweight lady:
First overweight lady:
First overweight lady: “You aren’t one of those horrid tea people, are you…?”*
It occurs to me that fresh fruits and vegetables spoil but fat is evergreen.
Overweight people are just forward-thinkers is what I’m trying to say.
So, the MFM beats down the tea party movement on a regular basis, spreading lies about its proponents and members, and then comments on how people view it unfavorably. What a surprise.
I use to believe that they were in the business of reporting news, not making it. I feel foolish about my previous ignorance, though in my defense I was but a lad at the time.
Joke’s on them. Pretty soon all they’ll have are apple wedges.
Actually, this mirrors conversations between me and my mom. “Hey, Mom. I’m looking at a new purse, but it’s, like, $100, and I don’t want to spend the money now since I need new tires.”
My lovely mom: “Get the purse and the tires both; with this economy, I don’t think we’ll have any choices in a couple of years. Smoke ’em while you got ’em.”
OUTLAW.
The linked article contains not a single comparative mention of the toxicity of Obama in this campaign season, when no sane Democrat will be found within miles of the man, the President of the United States, perhaps best captured to my ken by bh:
that’s just more trickery where they conflate that dumb self-promoting slut with the Tea Party and hope people don’t notice
Remember this is the paper with the good imam that can do no wrong, Beck is always providing haterade, yadda yadda, these pleas for attention, might earn you a cubcake
I cannot imagine why, after the MFM calls a group racist hatey angry extremists for over a year straight, that if you polled the audience, they might start to think that.
Nice, JG. (I read this after commenting this…)
I watched a whole interview on CNN last night between Wolf Blitzer and Michael Moore. I hurled.
Like hurling do you?
OK, I’ll take the bait one last time:
“…dumb self-promoting slut”
“slut”? Your problems with women are showing again. Or, are you accusing her of sleeping around on her husband? You wonder why people think you deranged?
“dumb” Yup, failed her way across every endeavour. If only she could aspire to your level of achievement, hf.
“self-promoting” – and what field are you working in again?
That’ll wrap it up for me, hf. Sorry you had to spin out of mental control one too many times. I’ll always be grateful you sent all that Robusto to me down at Basrah, but I’m finished with you. Should you confront your personal problems and get over this, perhaps I will see, but right now, you bring nothing but a vile and black heart here. I shan’t respond, so no use justifying yourself.
ok Mr. LTC I understand you are upset but I don’t deserve that kind of opprobrium just for making commentings on the Internet
When I say “dumb self-promoting slut” what I mean is she whores herself out to just about anyone what will take her… going to work for Fox News was a big tell that the woman has no fucking dignity about who she’ll take a paycheck from… but it’s not surprising exactly that she’s “successful.” Sarah Palin is the sort of gimicky easily-encapsulated cooze what prospers in the age of reality tv – our whorish little snooki of the tundra, but America needs something much more substantive than another pandering whore in her white house.
two in a row would be almost fatal I think to the esteem at home and abroad in which that office is held
I’m sorry you find that offensive but there’s a lot at stake what that woman is trifling with. Whether it’s her Tea Party hijacking hijinks or her more general lowering of the bar of what we look for in out leaders or her ridiculously hypocritical endorsements of nanny state whores like John McCain.
She’s bad news and I would be remiss as an American and as a staunchly conservative pikachu both were I to be reticent to criticize her I think, so I do my best to speak up when I can.
of what we look for in *our* leaders I mean
Yes, we got it you mad pickachu, but you risk ending up in the corner with “Iceberg” Murphy,David Frum, and Karl Rove, in a game of poker gone horribly wrong
You deserve all that and more,slewfoot.
And your point, feets?
Mr. smiley I’m willing to take that risk I think just for cause this, where we are, is endgame.
There’s a lot of people what are in denial about that I think. One gray night it happens and our little country is no more and happyfeet and proteins all will cease their fearless roar. Either that or it’s just the pointlessness of it all becomes overwhelming. We’ll see.
They polled their audience to boot. As others have said, just more of the propaganda machine making its noise.
Maybe you don’t get to decide who does and doesn’t deserve opprobrium..
The thing I find maddening about happyfeet’s behavior is that Palin doesn’t deserve all this animosity. She’s a thoroughly unimpressive person – not unlike her staunchy detractor – but the lack of discernment among her admirers is infinitely more troubling than she is.
of course I decide by who deserves opprobrium by who I address opprobriums to and it’s hardly ever been any of you proteins except for Darleen sometimes but that’s just cause she sometimes writes really unproteiny posts but even there I don’t routinely insult her and furthermore I think it’s very clear that I respect a lot of people like Mr. Jeff and Mr. geoff and carin and Mr. Reed and Mr. Makewi who don’t think Sarah Palin is a dirty dirty whore I just strongly disagree with them … I don’t think it makes them bad people.
but the point is getting lost… the point is that when people like the ny daily news conflate the Alaska hoochie and the Tea Party people shouldn’t just let that pass unremarked I don’t think
No, the point is you need to install an opporobrium filter on your own comments and see if maybe you can’t learn to express yourself without using words like “hoochie” — regardless how much you may think the target deserves it.
You have never seen the full range of opprobrium of which I am capable. I’d like to think that makes my comments a lot more pleasant to read, and me a lot easier to take seriously, than would otherwise be the case.
I hear you I have to go though cause I have to go all the way down the 405 and then come all the way back so that’s pretty much my whole day
Word.
26 for 24.
#24 – that is why I seldom even use a profane word and, to this point, only a couple of commenters have even had an insult from me (cynn being one of them). I want to get past all the chaff and get to the wheat of matters.
The biggest takeaway I have gained from Jeff’s blog is that language matters and it matters in so many more ways than I had (previous to discovering Jeff back in 2005)ever known.
“You have never seen the full range of opprobrium of which I am capable.”
Amen to that. May we not ever see that…
May we not ever see that…
I dunno. Just one or twice, directed at properly deserving targets, might be rather entertaining.
Off the topic of OCD,
Cranky-d,
Maybe they should poll people outside the borough of Manhattan, or even outside the Washington-New York-Boston Beltway, but the Yellow Journalism of media-funded polling is just so much easier…
I didn’t read far enough to see the poll results. Anyone who would report those numbers has their head up their ass. I believe the Tea Party has at least 40% support in most polls, and usually I see higher.
That poll is horsecrap. Nothing more need be said.
Never argue particulars when you don’t agree with the premise.
[ Palin is] a thoroughly unimpressive person – not unlike her staunchy detractor – but the lack of discernment among her admirers is infinitely more troubling than she is.
Back during the campaign, I thought her to be more impressive than either Barak Obama or Hillary Clinton. I still do. I suppose this is damning with faint praise in your estimation. Perhaps the thing about her that so appeals is that she reminds us that there’s success in life outside of the Ivy League and the corridors of power in D.C. and on Wallstreet, that there’s beauty without the glitz and glam of L.A. Perhaps that’s the thing about her the so threatens as well.
And for the record: Since she sank the campaign of the best friend I’ve ever had; the man who stood up for me at my wedding, I have more real reason to dislike her on a personal level than anybody on this site.
Okay, gotta admit, that definitely piqued my curiosity.
Yeah., And after I hit “Say It!” I immediately regreted it. Let’s just say in one of the many, many preliminary contests this election season, I think she made a mistake and leave it at that.
This.
Believe me, there is nothing more infuriating than being told you’re somehow a lower form of life because you didn’t go to the proper schools or don’t live in the right part of the country.
That’s cool. It’s dropped.
Or fail to earn your living in an appropriately praiseworthy
occupationI meancareerthat is profession, Mike.bh, I appreciate your discretion. Just ’cause I happen to know a guy from back in the day, as they say, doesn’t mean that I have any particular insight into or connection with that guy’s political career.
Believe me, there is nothing more infuriating than being told you’re somehow a lower form of life because you didn’t go to the proper schools or don’t live in the right part of the country.
That’s the problem in a nutshell, though. Too many people have crossed the line from a very understandable anti-elitism into something resembling willfull stupidity by putting her on a pedestal because she represents the grievances of people who feel marginalized by the MSM and popular culture.
Too many people reject her immediately because she doesn’t have the “right” pedigree.
Abe, I like Sarah Palin for the same reason I like Fred Thompson: both of them had actual lives doing something else besides wet-dreaming 24/7 about the next political office. As for being marginalized by popular culture: I’m a computer geek and an SF fan; marginalization R me from an early age. What has me ready to break out guns is that various morons won’t leave me alone to live my life. I’ve tried asking politely, and asking not so politely, and apparently asking just don’t get the job done.
This is probably a “agree to disagree” situation.
Happyfoot, Fuck you you pusssucking scumbag!
That wouldn’t be one of the funnier ones right there gp.
I don’t know what pedigree has to do with the fact that she appears to have the political sophistication of any bored housewife who listens to Rush twice a week, Cranky. My impression has nothing to do with her inability to make David Brooks happy in his pants and everything to do with her shallowness being so glaringly obvious after a few years of observation. I’m certainly open to an example of her speaking extemporaneously where she provides some evidence of having more than a surface, visceral grasp of conservatism. But I haven’t seen it.
this is joey hairplugs seat so she may be an improvement
I didn’t say I meant you, Abe, just as I assume you did not accuse me of willfull stupidity.
And yet, to me she appears to have done quite a bit more than many who make a career at appearing politically sophisticated.
At least we know where we stand.
you know joeyhairplugs who lied about his education, plagiarized speeches,
thinks j-o-b-s is 3 letters, and has been wrong about foreign policy for 20 yrs. o’donnell’s is a threat to that stupidity?
Yes, housewives topple political dysnasties, take on the major oil companies, revamp the state’s tax codes, thanks for playing
Nobody really knows what Palin’s intent vis-a-vis 2012 is; God only knows, and He ain’t tellin!
Besides, as sdferr astutely observed in another thread, none of us know what possible contingencies may arise in the meantime, or which more qualified candidates may come forward in the meantime.
At such a contentious juncture, it’s not productive to add any Palin fuel to the fire. YMMV…
Now that the primaries are over, it is the time for staunch ones, moderates, and RINOs alike to respect the will of the voters and not take their votes and go home. Again, YMMV.
She does know the oil bidness. She’d make a good Secretary of the Interior.
And a good chairman of the RNC, and probably another of other things as well.
But I don’t think that she thinks she’s the Republican nominee in 2012, let alone the next President of the U.S., regardless of what some of the would-be queenmakers around her might be trying to tell her.
As for politial sophistication,
I remember when Ronaldus Magnus was an “amiable dunce” who made people “comfortable with their prejudices,” and was superbly managed by a team of Machiavellian puppeteers.
I think Palin is most likely smarter than she seems, and it’s a pity the McCain people threw to the wolves to be stereotyped as she has been before she even had a chance to make a proper impression with her ostensible base. But that’s her burden to bear and overcome now.
And for all the feigned incredulity on the part of the media, she still managed to give the single best speech of the Republican campaign, and arguably the best speech of the entire election season.
And she did it without a teleprompter.
well said ernst. sarah palin is a freakin joke and will never be president. we need to get over our boners and focus on a real candidate like paul ryan or bobby jindal. we need a MAN to beat obama in 2012. palin, bachmann, o’donnell et al, may be pretty faces but theyre little more than conservative groopies.
I used to be aggressively ambivalent to Palin.
RyanPorkBelly is a disgrace to Massengills the world over …
Sounds to me like Ryan fears the PUMAs, and would hate to see a fur fight where Hillary narrowly loses a primary fight with the goldern Urkel…
Is that Willie the racist hilljack skin-flute player Abe? Where is the unbelievably hot, and muuuuuuuuch younger, girlfriend?
That is the original Moby, Bob.
I have no idea what this critter is, Bob. It is from Murfreesboro, Tennessee though, so I’d imagine it is either the hilljack or another one of serr8d’s strays.
Oh. I misunderstood.
I don’t think anyone tells her anything, she takes their considered advice, and then acts. She cited Ryan, as a possible candidate, in her Wallace interview. The energy in the party with the notable exception, of the likes of West, Rubio, and a few others, is ironically among the female
cohort. Romney to use one notable example, commons endorses people after they won their primary,
Jindal, the health care wunderkind, was mostly AWOL last year, so she had to do the heavy lifting
Palin has bigger balls Ryan. So does Bachmann. Hell, I bet O’Donnell, for all her faults, does too.
OT, Patrick is at it again, but I’m not going to waste my time or throw him any traffic. The whore.
Thanks JD,
There was a time when I was “with it!”; but these days I don’t even know what “it” really is…
Maybe Lady GaGa or some such person, eh? Maybe this is a question better put to happyfeet; since he’s in the belly of the beast, so to speak.
…one of serr8d’s strays.
Great line Abe,
But I didn’t ralize that in my absence serr8d had aquired a “hate” entourage. Must be a new cultural trend, or it’s a Tennessee thing, and we don’t understand.
serr8d has a distinguished list of stalkery troll thingies.
Appropriate picture Ryan,
Since the content of your commentary of yours generally consists of “the stroke” anyway…
in good news, turdblossom rove came to his senses today and fell in line behind o’donnell apologizing for his earlier diss. dissent is one thing we cant afford right now
I hsd no idea that serr8d was so much fun to hate. I’ve always been fond of him myself.
Why is PorkBelly posting his GlamourShots?
It’s amusing to me when someone this stupid thinks they’re smart enough to fool others. Someone’s special ed teacher handed out far too many stickers.
Sarah Palin does good work for the Tea Party. Hell, she is the Tea Party. One can’t help thing “Sarah” when one thinks of the Tea Party.
And the Tea Party is going to save America.
*Evil Grin*
This is the hoochie what said americans should not be allowed to export oil yes?
Man, that was fast!
Hahaha
hf’s got a feevah, and the only cure is more GrizzlyMama…
I didn’t know that serr8d had a stalkery-hatey entourage? Man, I grow ever more jealous of him, daily…
To which one do you refer, sd?
the 44 one
In this thread, this comment is my third.
Seriously, Garym?
What would it even mean?
Bah.
Hah!
Garymba Band?
Just heard about Staal’s foot problems yesterday guins and gotta say I hope he’s better soon. Lingering infection, don’t like: his game, like a lot. He doesn’t deserve this trouble.