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I commented on exactly that same thing on my crapblog, in my usual illiterate way, Jeff.
Although I argue that his people have been pushing the “he’s a moderate” angle for a while. The Tuscon deal gave him another vehicle.
I hear the air-raid siren, so I guess it’s time to feed myself to the Morlocks.
I think all that poll does is point out that a lot of people are not paying attention, or that any attention they do pay is being given only to MSM sources of
propagandainformation. Also, I have met plenty of lefties who I thought were fairly radical who considered themselves centrists, so you have a self-awareness problem as well.Charles the K said that he saw the extension of the Bush tax cuts as giving the president the appearance of moving to the center, and it appears that is what happened for many who don’t follow politics (which, I guess, is most people). A few gestures like that is apparently all it takes to appear to have pivoted even when it hasn’t really happened.
So, yeah, still doomed.
From the poll,
Car in might want to consider putting her URL in her name here so it’s easier to find her blog. Sure, I can use my memory to recall it, but it’s fading with age.
Huh. It was there before. I don’t know what happened to it.
Strange.
I think it’s fixt. Thanks for pointing that out.
Looking at the sampling, they could have come up with 95% saying Mr. Soetero is a centrist if they had only queried strong Democrats. But… Aren’t labels supposed to be icky and mean?
the usual gi-go poll then
Saw a CNN poll the other day where a majority supposedly thought that the Republican control of the House was good for America, but also wanted Obama’s policies to suceed.
I can only assume the majority of Americans don’t want what is best for America.
Yep. But hardship has a way of bringing clarity to a situation. But hey, let’s focus on his birth certificate and take our eyes off the substantive issues.
I’d be curious as to how much of the movement away from “very liberal” is coming from disillusioned liberals unhappy about Teh Won’s Cheneyesque policies. I mean, it could be a matter of the cultists waking up, as much as the saner types getting the wool pulled over.
“Exactly 40 percent of respondents said they view Obama as a moderate – a ten-point spike”
This imagery motivates me to violence. It evokes weaponry and martial fetishism. Couldn’t they have written leap, or jump, or increment? Now I must procure a large firearm and seek out a hillbilly militia. I had planned to spend the day reducing my carbon footprint, but there we are.
Off-topic: Did anyone catch the Lysander Spooner letter that was posted yesterday? I caught the link from Volokh, and upon reading it, couldn’t help but be struck by how applicable such sentiments would be today:
Enough to make one’s heart sing, innit?
Given we’ve become a society where the federal government has legislative control so vast it regulates our lightbulbs and toilet fixtures, Spooner today might conclude his enemies prevailed.
From what I know of Spooner, he’d just fight all the harder. Civilly, of course, and without martial metaphors.
We are Eloi
I’m thinking more “morg” and “imorg” as seen in “Spock’s Brain.” The moderate centrist bleats “Brain and brain! What is brain?”
Are we not men?
We are not men??
I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion polls these days aren’t meant to reflect public opinion, but rather to drive it.
‘Cuz of all the sheep.
“We are Eloi.
We are not men??”
Heh heh. H G Wells was one of the original fascists.
“Liberal fascists,” that is.
Really George, that tone is not helpful.
This is also a tell.
Obama’s rise in popularity coincides exactly with Republicans taking control of the house and “doing something”. I’m surprised the author didn’t notice that.
It starts with one, as well, geoff. Pollsters terminate the call if the respondent has a landline–only those who rely solely on a cell phone were questioned. Not sure what the population correlation at work is, but no traditional phone sems to equate to overrepresenation of young Democrats that watch network news.
So, what if I ignore my small stature and pale complexion and self-identify as a Morlock anyway?
I think bumblefuck probably looks more and less moderate depending on who he’s being contrasted with.
They wanted 200 people who only had cell phones and 800 who had landlines. The ones they called on cell phone numbers were asked that question to weed out ones who had landline phones
I would bet that the 8% who get their news from MSNBC identified themselves as either independent or independent-lean-Democrat. CNN too.
Watch the other hand people, dammit, WATCH THE OTHER HAND!
– Barnett say’s he’s moderate compared to Tunisia.
Obama won with approximately 53% of the vote. McCain was weak but he did get just under 46%. For relection, you should probably assume Obama has 45% of the vote in the bag. That means this election will turn on who wins that 8%.
Can a conservative hero rise who can swing that margin to victory? Yes, I think that is possible. I do not think it happens playing it safe with a Huckabee, Romney, or Pawlenty. But that is what primaries are for.
If I were feeling generous, I’d say Obama was moderate in intelligence.
No. Can’t do it.
I think you’ve nailed it there Joe. Any thoughts on who that might be?
Wasn’t this just about exactly the view of democracy the founders took? And why they disfavored it for republicanism? At least I think that argument is there in the record.
remember also that the dirty socialists rigged it to where the most ardently ass-raping aspects of Obamacare don’t kick in until after bumblefuck’s bitch ass is re-elected
but I guess it’s an open question when the inflations come in earnest
inflations is not something what dovetails neatly with “moderate” I would guess
Thanks geoff. Clearly it helps if you read all the little line thingys.
For relection, you should probably assume Obama has 45% of the vote in the bag. That means this election will turn on who wins that 8%.
I’d say that 8% is for Obama to lose, given that he’s the incumbent and all.
Ooo! Ooo!
Come see this article on how replication in the scientific method almost inevitably provides diminishing results.
The whole poll seems written in a form to induce MEGO.
it says a majority of peoples want the government to limit their constitutional rights to own guns
speaking of the bamboozlings today we see propaganda whore Viv Schiller’s National Soros Radio heartily applauding Wal-Mart for kowtowing to M’chelle Obama’s nannywhore bleatings.
Yay! But it’s informative to contrast the healthy fare being urged on Wal-mart’s hapless shoppers with the fare NPR is promoting to their rich white listeners. The featured recipe today is for a tasty tasty chowder. From the ingredients here is some of what NPR’s rich white listeners will get to enjoy for deener:
and they don’t have to measure out their sodiums like the Wal-mart shoppers will have done for them
Yummy! It’s loaded with fat and starch and salt to taste.
Attention Wal-mart shoppers!
Sometimes I do wonder who has bamboozled who and to what effect.
Just caught a couple minutes of Rush. He was speaking of David Frum, a “useful idiot” for left-wing bloggers and the MSM for saying that Sarah Palin should shut up; then included many in Team R who wouldn’t come to her defense last week.
I immediately thought of ‘feets.
coming to work I caught a couple minutes of that far east movement song with dev
I wasn’t gonna say anything.
Controlling what food is eaten is for the little people.
Bamboozled? Who?
Heh. From the comments of the PJM piece that geoffb linked comes a frightening truth. This idiot (John Lewis) is indeed more intelligent than the vast majority of his constituents. Failshit indeed.
After Barry’s incredible, “unprecedented” diplomatic victory yesterday, I think we’re all being short-sighted here.
Have all you ungrateful jerks forgotten?
We get to keep the pandas.
Take that China!
Best comment of the
daymonthblog.Hey, guys, I need some intentionalism, and I remember you people being whizzes with that sort of thing. What is Glenn Beck trying to say here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcvbw6ExTQ
I mean, I know it’s taken out of context and whatnot and certainly consists of some mere metaphor that your craven opponents will take literally merely because it is obviously meant to be taken literally. The thing is that I’ve been stepping up my own rhetoric lately and I need to know what I can get away with. Thanks in advance!
Intentionalism isn’t something you just grab every now and then as needed. It’s a way of dealing with all manner of communication. You either understand it or you do not. In this case, you’re just attempting to be provocative again. I’m not sure why you bother. I don’t read sites whose target audience has opinons and beliefs completely orthogonal to my own, so I can’t understand why anyone else would. You are certainly not attempting to understand how others think, because otherwise you wouldn’t be so condescending.
However, since I looked at the clip anyway, an intentionalist viewing of it would likely conclude that it was metaphor, as Beck has a long history of stating that violence is not the answer, and in fact would result in something even worse than we have now. You had already reached your own conclusion, though. Whatever.
As far as what you can get away with goes, go for it. You will rise and fall on your ability to convince others. So far your track record is quite poor around here, but maybe you’ll get lucky somewhere else.
I’m not sure why you bother.
He’s going to show us the error of our ways, cranky. Bringing those of us who dwell in darkness to see the true light. We should be grateful.
I can’t view YouTube at the office (at least not until I get some incriminating evidence against my IT guy). May I safely assume that whatever Brownie is alluding to is not “obviously meant to be taken literally?”
– Now, now. Barrett scored a positive note yesterday with his “Well ObamaWorld is certainly better than Tunisia.”
– That right there, probably inadvertently, could possibly qualify as “faint praise award” for 2011.
– We’ll have to wait and see if he tops himself.
The youtube vid ends with Glenn Beck saying, paraphrased, “you have to shoot them in the head first, because if you don’t, they’ll shoot you.” It’s a 20 second clip, obviously the end of an extended rant.
Let me provide the context for you, Barrett:
Glenn is saying that the mainstream Dems in congress and the Team-D party apparatus have been glad to make common cause with radicals such as Van Jones (a self-described Communist), who preaches that radicals should abandon the radical pose to achieve their radical ends.
In other words, ditch the tie-dyes and patchouli oil and don a suit and tie so that you don’t scare the sheeple.
Glenn is saying that mainstream Dems believe that they’re using the radicals’ passion and organization for their own ends, but that in reality the radicals are using the mainstreamers.
In this clip, he’s addressing those mainstream Dems—the “you” in his rhetoric. He’s harking back to past revolutions such as the Bolshevik wherein the revolutionaries used people, then shot them in the head when they were no longer useful.
Historical allusion, in other words, which I’m sure you’ll agree is hunky dory in any context.
But I also know that you didn’t ask the question because you were curious about the context of the clip but so that you could present an example of violent political rhetoric from the right, perhaps hoping to discomfit us with it.
Check it out: we don’t give a rip about alleged “violent political rhetoric.” People can say what they damn well please, and people getting the vapors about “targets” and “crosshairs” and other war metaphors are being supremely disingenuous. They aren’t concerned about any “tone”; they’re just trying to discredit the other side.
Furthermore, “violent political rhetoric” doesn’t cause cranks and schizophrenics to assassinate or go on a rampage. It never has and it never will. However, Beck and Palin and Limbaugh’s words do have the annoying tendency to prod people into action such as taking back the House, and We Can’t Have That, can we?
So go ahead and step up your rhetoric to your heart’s content.
We don’t care.
@Barrett Brown
that clip isn’t from 6/10/10 show
that show can be viewed here
It’s going to be fun to see how this plays out.
Wow, Barrett goes all in. That was AJB/RD grade stupidity right there. As usual, dicentra, great reply.
Ah, now I see. Having worn the magnetic stripe off the Race Card™, Barrett’s programmers have instructed him to try the Violence Card™. Because when you can’t make your case in a way that the populace will accept, your best bet is to get the other side so tied up in politically correct knots that they are no longer able to effectively make their own.
Been down that road before, Barrett. I’m a little disappointed that you’d try such a tired gambit. And frankly, a bit insulted that you’d think we wouldn’t see right through you.
I remember when you had game, man. I remember when you were really somebody.
Even if not removed from context, let’s raise the ante: who cares. We’re all supposed to be free to say what we like. 1st Amendment says so.
Government is force. Why is it surprising that political rhetoric is forceful?
Must be before my time.
Then again, here is one of those 8% (who voted for Obama) who might swing the other way next time.
Can Mike Spence do it? Herman Cain? It depends if they catch fire or not. Mitch Daniels is a social moderate, but he is a fiscal conservative. I would take Mitch over Huckabee, Romney, or Pawlenty. Donald Trump was on Hannity hinting he might run in 2012. I am not a big fan of Trump, but I welcome him in the primaries.
I’ve found that in any thread Brown comments in, somebody always takes an inflated view of his importance.
I’m sorry, I meant nonplussed, sophisticatedly important, lantern-jawed B. Brown. Sorry.
OT but it’s nice to see signs of life from Meg Whitman
Another way to put it is don’t be a Menshevik or an SR. Fight back when the possibliity of winning if good, later it will be too late. Don’t mistake the sharks for fellow minnows swimming with you.
As usual, dicentra, great reply
Indeed. That was some excellent, much needed context.
When I first read cranky’s Beck paraphrased “you have to shoot them in the head first, because if you don’t, they’ll shoot you”, I freaked out thinking Beck had somehow learned zombies have evolved and can now return fire.
I mean fast zombies are one thing. But armed zombies? Well that’s just not cricket, man! And we don’t need that kind of unsportsmanlike shit during the zombie apocalypse.
Also, I think Barrett should sign all his future comments “Seacrest out!”
Hey everybody look! A condescendingly dishonest question posited by Barrette Brown.
Shocker.
-waves at the pathetic loser-
Hi Barrette, you lying sack of shit.
No one does this more than BB himself, of course.
Good, just wanted to make sure you guys will have my back when I start cajoling people to shoot certain other people in the head. For the record, it will be intended as a metaphor, as I’ve used metaphors before, just like Glenn Beck.
I hereby propose that any parties who, despite not knowing anything of Tunisia much less the nuances of the last few weeks, nonetheless portray the current revolutionary movement as being Islamist to some considerable degree and thus discourage people from providing even moral support for that revolution, be shot in the head, metaphorically.
Thanks in advance for defending this comment.
Crikey, it’s a good thing I didn’t fall into that tiger pit. The man has some serious logical skillz.
I am not a big fan of Trump, but I welcome him in the primaries.
Unfortunately you can’t take the United States into bankrupty and reorganize.
here’s your first head shot
link
As I have noted to someone with similar analytic skills, that some Islamists are trying to press their agenda onto a revolution led by educated, Europeanized folks of the sort with whom we are working, none of whom give a shit about Islam, does not make this a revolution with any considerable Islamic character. You need to do more than just Google “Tunisia revolution Islam” or whatever you just did in order to libel these people.
I’ll defend your comments, Barrette Brown, on account of you’re a true libertarian. I’ll take it on faith.
I’ll even defend your Inestimable Body of Work when it shows signs of originality instead of making you look like you pose as minds you shall never be but for all the world obviously wish you were.
Which, considering the post above this one, also means learning to write coherently.
Those who actually want to help a movement for greater liberty, please check out: http://typewith.me/owA6rmGfP6
Or Google “OpTunisia.” There is a reason that other conservatives are now involved in this. We took down Venezuela’s main site yesterday, for instance. This is not a “liberal” operation that you need to automatically degrade in emotional self-defense.
This is 2011. You can do these things.
Does this mean we’re all in agreement now that the yearning for freedom is intrinsic to the human heart like Dubya said it was? That damn shoot from the hip cowboy hit the target again!
And Islamists are Bolshevik anyways. Doesn’t matter what’s happening in Tunisia short term. It’s what develops over the middle term that matters.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I just think that the Iraq thing didn’t go so well and that those resources, including our lives and those of Iraqis, could have been better utilized for the cause of liberty were they under the control of competent people. I have no idea how controversial this sentiment is here, but I’m interested to see, actually.
Thank heaven those are some educated, Europeanised folks you’re working with, Barrett. Wouldn’t want to dirty yourself with the uncouth natives, would you?
“As I have noted to someone with similar analytic skills, that some Islamists are trying to press their agenda onto a revolution led by educated, Europeanized folks”
sounds like the shah’s iran circa 1978
No, I do not want to work with less educated, more Islam-driven people, seeing as how I’m actively opposed to the various religions and such people would not be willing to secure liberty nor would they choose to work with us.
If I were you I’d start out by trolling some Glenn Beck red herring, but you may have a better idea than leading with bad faith.
I don’t know, newrouter, considering the post under yours it sounds like a nice wide dollop of Brown elitism. Such People and all.
link
Except this is Tunisia in 2011, which is a much different situation occurring in a much different informational environment. Again, there are conservatives who are more aware of our efforts than you who have determined that this is worthwhile and are now even assisting themselves. Perhaps you should explain to them why they’re wrong, based on your expertise in this matter and particularly your knowledge of Tunisia and the most recent developments in internet activism/revolutionary tactics. LOL DO IT
What is Glenn Beck trying to say here?
I’d tell you, but then I’d have to kill you. FYNQ
What? Too much violent rhetoric?
Off you go Barrett, and bust a metaphorical cap in the metaphorical ass of any Tunisian you think is the wrong sort.
“particularly your knowledge of Tunisia and the most recent developments in internet activism/revolutionary tactics. LOL DO IT”
yea it worked so well in iran.
Tunisia and Iran are comprised of entirely different ethnic make-ups, speak two different languages, have very different histories vis a vis not only colonial background but also history before and since, are located in two different parts of the world, have different neighbors, and are conducting revolutions in two different ways in very different situations. Iran had a major Islamic leader in exile, backing it and getting attention and becoming more popular among the majority of the populace, whereas Tunisia has nothing of the sort. Please stop writing nonsense to discourage people from assisting a valid revolutionary effort on behalf of a people who want some of the same freedoms you have.
Why the fuck should we do something because “there are conservatives who are more aware of our efforts than you who have determined that this is worthwhile?” We aren’t a cult of joiners, we’re individuals. We don’t have to justify their actions, nor they ours.
Why don’t you write about this on your blog, and we’ll read it if we feel like it?
There’s a good boy.
“Please stop writing nonsense to discourage people from assisting a valid revolutionary effort on behalf of a people who want some of the same freedoms you have.”
why do you support sharia?
“who want some of the same freedoms you have.”
how do you know this is true?
Soon as you get those Free Tunisia! bumperstickers printed you be sure and send us a box, kthxbye.
You don’t have to be a cult of joiners to help something. That’s a pretty over-the-top restatement of the characterization “people you agree with and probably would respect are doing this, so it’s not your enemies doing it for nefarious reasons and evil outcome.”
Newrouter, I don’t know if that’s a serious question or a joke or what.
Because I know Tunisians and am now working with hundreds of them directly, more indirectly. I know it in the same way that Bush knew about most Iraqis, except I have sort of a fetish for competent strategies that will help get the job done without getting a lot of civilians killed.
Probably as serious as that Rough Guide to Tunisia and Iran you just wrote, Barrett.
I only wrote part of it and edited. Tunisians themselves wrote other parts while veterans of Ukraine and other modern revolutions, plus some old ones, also contributed. Tunisians have distributed it widely already and many more will see our next guide on internet security and organization. Let me know if you have any other really clever and accurate objections.
“Newrouter, I don’t know if that’s a serious question or a joke or what.”
me good luck tunisia. leave me out of it. i don’t care about remodeling the world anymore.
You seem to think that because we tend to be conservative we should be backing you on Tunisia. What else would you call an expectation that our politics should lead to all of us backing some cause except that we’re a cult of joiners? Automatically backing something because of your politics is not a rational act.
Let me know if you have any other really clever and accurate objections.
Just your involvement in it. It’s bound to be half-assed and juvenile.
Very well, thank you.
And with that ego, a palpable disdain for your fellow man in this thread that extends to ignoring nearly every word they say.
Evangelize!
I like how the only people that a certain sort of conservative will make fun of for “evangelizing” are those that do not actually spend their time trying to convince others that an actual messiah has been born in the shape of a man in the province of Judea and that we must all worship him for he is GOD! When Christians do that, totally reasonable, shouldn’t be made fun of or one is an elitist. When someone asks others to help with a plan that is relevant to values that those others claim to believe in, then ZOMG LOL LOOK AT THIS GUY EVANGELIZING!
…advocate bigger government.
FTFY, moron.
Nice diversion, Brown. You’re winning converts!
One must consider the source, BB. You have almost no credibility around here, and that is your fault. If anyone here does anything other than mock you as you have so richly earned, you should be surprised.
McGehee-
I’m an anarchist. You are not. That makes you the statist, sweetheart.
one of these things is not like the other…
one of these things is not the same…
if I were an anarchist I’d eat waffles for dinner
Anarchists don’t do that anymore, we’re all foodies now. I made a salad with two kinds of olives a couple nights ago.
“I’m an anarchist”
no just a kook
oh. Well if you have any leftover waffles in the freezer from back in the day let me know
Barrett Brown posted on 1/20 @ 5:18 pm
Anarchists don’t do that anymore, we’re all foodies now. I made a salad with two kinds of olives a couple nights ago.
Did you do that at your girlfriend’s place. If so, did you throw the pits in her’s roommate’s bed?
Nope, I forced her roommate out two days after the incident you’re probably referencing. He whined that he felt “threatened” to the landlord, who ended up taking our side. He paid for the month and left, other roommate’s friend is moving in. Someone else sent a complaint to my editor at The Guardian and then I explained what happened to him as well. All splashback diverted because I’m better than the CIA, which isn’t saying much. Lol internet.
Here is the link for those who missed this youtube posting.
– 5 will get you ten that either the “Brown” in its name refers to loafers, or Mr. Barrett is a Ms.
– Too many “LOL’s” for a dude.
Opps, both links youtube disabled over hate speech and such. Too bad, it was comedy gold. Maybe you could repost them here.
I took the videos down as per my threat/unipolar agreement with the douchebag in question. Sorry, they really were pretty funny.
#Optunisia.
And yet here you are, defending a guy I oppose because he’s more statist than I.
I’d say that makes you a moron.
Moron.
Because I know Tunisians…
Is that like, “Some of my best friends are black people”?
…and am now working with hundreds of them directly, more indirectly.
So…you’ve traded a few emails with the “Tunisian underground” and you’re now what? A new and improved OSS? Aldo the Apache? “I’ll scalp ’em with my condescension, narcissism… and the internet!”
I have sort of a fetish for competent strategies that will help get the job done without getting a lot of civilians killed.
Well don’t be a selfish dick. Share how any revolution for freedom and liberty in the history of man has not cost civilian lives. Share so that we might re-write history and receive the true word.
…many more will see our next guide on internet security and organization
You better hope Julian Assange didn’t just read that.
Anyways, you give ’em hell there Barrett. You’re obviously the top dog in this fight. I mean with your deep knowledge of all things Tunisian, your bad ass internet guides, and your civilian saving Ukraine influenced revolution strategery and whatnot.
We are all humbled to share a comment thread with your Khan like superior intellect.
God speed on your sure to be upcoming flight to Tunisia. You should probably pack light. And remember. We’re all counting on you son.
But Barrett, you’re a grade a pussy. We know any threat from you is as idle as they come. Who knows about that crazy Glenn Beck, though. He may just bust a cap in a motherfucker’s ass if the mood strikes him :)
And this:
You didn’t give a shit about Iraqis before the escalation, so don’t use that as a reason to be against the escalation after the fact. And this is coming from one of Jeff’s few regulars who was against the Iraqi escalation based solely on Libertarian principles. And they still like me…I think.
As for your current Tunisia project, good luck.
You were against the Iraq escalation, OI?
You are dead to me, sir. DEAD!
DEATH THREAT!!
Meh, this poll only proves that Lincoln was right, you can fool some of the people all of the time. We call these people “Democrats”.
Thanks, appreciate it.
– Well hell yes. The most effective strategy for dealing with third world countries that want to do a “Japan” on us is to bomb the fuckers into road kill and powdered rubble, and then not rebuild them. We’re just to damn nice.
– “Intelligent Europeans”. Is that the first entry in the 2011 oxymoron list?
I know Tunisians, cranky. The bad kind!
I’m an anarchist
Good that you were joking.
Modern day anarchists are poofs. They have meetings now. Fucking anarchists have meetings.
While I’m sure they’re flexible on attendee attire, I can only imagine the meetings consist of slamming into each other in a Holiday Inn banquet room while screaming about the WTO, parsing the lyrics of some Husker Du song, and paying the bill before leaving.
– Damn, I haven’t seen a real Anarchist in decades. I thought the last one went extinct when Disco died.
Careful Lamont; Brown looks to go only about 135, 140 tops.
Heh.
Lamont-
I’m sure you’re much tougher than any of us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ab7Dksqfnw
when I start cajoling people to shoot certain other people in the head. For the record, it will be intended as a metaphor, as I’ve used metaphors before, just like Glenn Beck.
oh for shit’s sake (since I can’t say “shoot”) Barrett, did you NOT read Dicentra’s #57???
Tunisia? Looks a lot like Tatooine, as I recall.
Brown appears the brilliant failed media whore.
If BB’s work w/ Tunisia is so damn important he ought to be doing it instead of trying to get us to do it for him.
Of course, I suspose the work itself could be important, but BB unimportant enough to have plenty of time
to kill
with a bullet
to the head
metaphorically speaking
Barrett Brown just might be the most self absorbed douche nozzle on the innerturbes.
Oh, BB’s important, Ernst.
Donate?
Ernest: Crowdsourcing. Look it up or ask a trusted, conservative technologist, if you can find one.
JD: Go Google “Barrett JD douche nozzle” and let me know how many results you get.
Important important or importunately self-important?
oh, btw BB? That avator with all the pointy arrows? Have you NO CIVILITY, sir?
Crowdsourcing?
I got one word for you, BB: Mad blog money!
I think this falls under the ‘dance with the one what brought you.’
To the people of Tunisia – Barrett Brown supports your desire for freedom from a government that doesn’t represent your interests. All he asks in return is that you put aside your culture and mores informed for centuries by Islam and your deeply-held Islamic religious beliefs, which he finds rather distasteful. Should be a simple affair. You can thank him by sending a vintage fixie bike care of Barrett Brown, Williamsburg, New York.
This thread is teh funny.
Barrett: Asking once or twice is soliciting support. This is more like aggressive pan-handling.
Alec-
Never thought I’d see pro-Islamic sentiment expressed here, but then I underestimated the extent to which many of those who frequent this blog are more interested in attacking their supposed enemies than sticking to any principles whatsoever.
It’s Dungeons & Dragons nomenclature to express his alignment as Chaotic. Barret – how many hit points do you have?
Ernst, I’m responding to the various people who are talking to me. Metaphors can be dangerous in the hands of the disingenuous.
Thanks for putting words in my mouth, Barret. They’re tasty, like pie.
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I am almost inclined to obey your command, bitch. On second thought, nah. You are the most pompous arrogant person in any room, with no justification.
Alec-
Sorry, I interpreted your criticism of my desire for more Tunisians to abandon Islam as a defense of Islam. You should correct me by explaining what you actually mean. Paste your original comment into a new one first so that everyone can better see how accurate your explanation is. Since it will be very accurate indeed and not at all an attempt to backtrack, this will be of helping in demonstrating how wrong I got it.
“….or read the work of blogger-journalists Glenn Greenwald….”
– Well see, the problem with that is there are so damn many Greenwald sockpuppets in the Greewald klan.
– Should we read the one that play’s the banjo?
– Or is that some naferious swipe at the excellence of the Tunisian effort to really fuck up the government and loot some free stuff, or is it really just a way to badmouth the peace loving Islamists. (pbuy)
– Good day to you Sir!
“I interpreted your criticism of my desire for more Tunisians to abandon Islam”
you like to tell people what to do rancher.
Mad blog money, newrouter. I’ll draw you a schematic.
“Paste your original comment into a new one first so that everyone can better see how accurate your explanation is. Then write a 50 page essay explaining your reasoning and how you interpret my continued wrongheadedness in the face of daunting odds. Essays are due at start of class Tuesday, and count one third of your grade for semester three. Points will be deducted for using the name Greenwald in your essay.
BBH – Creationists shouldn’t try comedy. There’s a reason there are no funny creationist humorists.
– I must have a sense of humor BB. You been here for months and I haven’t shot you in the head yet.
It’s hard to aim over a firewall. Otherwise a lot more people will be dead.
Leave the comedy to BB. He’s one in a long line of college dropouts who make people laugh.
Mr. Brown – Support for Islam is not the same as a recognition that Tunisia is steeped in centuries of Islam, and that the typical Tunisian’s life is experienced through the prism of Islam – whether he be doctrinaire and inflexible about the whole matter or no. Your willingness to support a Tunisian revolution only insofar as the product of the revolution resembles the hail fellow, well met “Europeanised” Tunisians who care nothing for Islam and whom you find acceptable in social circles is the mark of a fool. You find Tunisia and its Tunisians as you find them.
Having said this, my personal view of Islam is somewhat mixed. There is much to admire about Islam as practiced at times, but much to abhor.
I fear for the people of Tunisia, because if Barrett Brown is their savior, they are well and truly fucked.
Not so if they trade Islam for irony. I had read that this very thing was Lawrence’s project before his unfortunate motorbike accident.
BB is just a pathetic attention-seeking whore. What was the earth changing thing he was pushing a couple weeks ago? The one before that? The one before that?
– A firewall isn’t the reason for the PW commentariot’s restaraint dickhead. Unloading a magazine of .38’s in your mommies tiled basement would make the noise deafening.
– First locate your ass with booth hands. Then maybe you can think about saving Tunisia.
– Baby steps.
Barret is prepared to bestow upon the Tunisian people a right to self determination through a representative government, as long as the government is made up of Europeanised Tunisians who are unlike, um, actual Tunisians.
In unrelated news, Barret’s favorite black guy of all time is Carlton Banks.
Sumbitch must have run out for some PBR and cigarette tobacco.
He had to go wrassle up some cattle, practice his Indiana Jones look in the mirror, and telling himself how fucking awesome he thinks he is.
A recent poll said that most people want somebody else to pay their taxes. Unfortunately, most people now realize that this is impossible.
Mr. Brown – Don’t the Carthaginians belong in Tunisia ? My uncle took several dumps their while fighting to free the country from nazi oppression. Does he get any land claims ?
Ever hear of “squatter’s rights?”
Being a Dickhead’s Cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I
Eloi.
Eat me.
Exactly Alec – I want a half Baptist, half Catholic church that rushes home to watch professional wrestling. Fair is fair.
JD – Do you have the Bears or Packers this week? Tough choice to say the least.
I’d like to see a Chicago/Pittsburgh sluggfest in the Bowl.
– It will be a slugfest in the “bowel” no matter which two teama survive this weekend.
Rupert – i took the Pack giving 3.5 and the over at 43.5.
Right now I’d say Steelers and Bears, and the TV ratings would be through the roof. As a Bear fan I keep seeing Cutler throwing a couple of interceptions early, and Green Bay running them back for touchdowns.
I would like to see the Packers and Steelers play in the Bowl, as long as it is played in the snow at Lambeau.
Took the Pack, same points. Ended up not playing the under.
Barrett,
Your take sounds much like Michael Totten’s, so I’ll give you some advice. See if Eric S. Raymond is interested in helping you. He probably will.
Everybody is picking the Packers. It is a lot of pressure on GB. Forget about the talk on the grass at Soldier Field. It has always been bad and not once helped the Bears.
My boss ended up getting tickets, btw.
Cost him three grand. Yikes.
Three grand per?
I really wanted a dome in Chicago. Bear weather my ass. I ain’t paying two grand to sit in below zero weather.
Nah, for two. Don’t remember where but they didn’t sound like very good seats.
I went to one football game, and now I never have to go again. I can see much better from home, or a bar.
That is still pretty salty. Are you his plus one, bh?
I still have found memories of old Soldier Field. The hallways were the urinals and giant chunks of concrete were held up with paint. Those were the days. The surface of the field was concrete painted green.
Shit, I wish. Taking his son.
Buddy of mine just got a silly big TV so we’ll end up watching it over there I think. Someone should probably tell his wife.
Review the thread, I’m convinced that Barrett is a godawful bore, and yet I’m also certain he knows where to score gobs of Ecstasy. I’m also having a vision of deeply confused Tunisians.
– Ah to be young again when I could justify that sort of thing.
– My last, most excellent adventure at heavy betting was a grand on Rice to score five in the ’94 bowl. He scored six, the last one with 22 seconds remaining.
– Can you say “suicidal” and use it in a sentence kids.
– The smart thing, since I was being dumb anyway, would have been to wheel three through six at 250 each. I would have walked with 20 grand.
– Good times.
“Your take sounds much like Michael Totten’s”
yes the bush stratergy work in 2 sharia compliant countries. go wilson team. effin’ losers.
bb is another wilsonian with bill krystal as his side kick.
I’m of a similar mind, though I’ve got to say that living within walking distance of Jack Murphy/Qualcomm was a blast, especially when the Raiders were in town.
Living in New England, where my house is warm and food and booze are cheap and plentiful, and where if need be I can rewind that last play and then skip some commercials, and where going to the game means none of that, being surrounded by Massholes and funding Myra Kraft’s various despicable enterprises, yeah, I’ll watch the games from right here.
– Pablo – If you were that close to Qualcom you had to be in my old neighborhood.
I have not been around much recently. My 90 year old Grandmother passed away earlier this week, quite suddenly. We laid her to rest this afternoon. She lived a wonderful and full life. At 90 years old, she had only been in th hospital for the birth of her 3 kids and for a hip replacement over 20 years ago. She was on no prescription medications, and her life’s medical records were no more than an inch thick.
Her husband passed away 2 months after we got pregnant with Kaitlin, and never got to meet his great grand-children. She, or actually we were fortunate to have her around so she was able to know her 3 great-grandchildren
If you have a drink handy, raise it in memory of her, and in thanks that she gets to join her husband of 61 years again.
If dicentra’s explanation at #57 is too hard for poor BB to read and comprehend then he may wish to go to a less semantically challenging blog for the same explanation but this time with pictures, video, and fancy fonts.
– You got it JD – here’s to her and all the great memories.
Shit, sorry to hear that, JD.
Yeah, I’ll definitely raise a glass to her with you.
Thanks, sorry for the thread jack. I just needed to dump that. Resume football and mocking asshats like Barette.
I have my favorite rum handy right here
Qualcom will always be Jack Murphy to me. I saw a few Padres games there, the last ones being in the cheap seats in the outfield. The only football game I’ve been to was at the Home of the Collapsing Dome. IIRC, the Vikings lost that one. I don’t even remember who they were playing.
The Monster: Thanks, will look into that. Let me know if you need any more links aside from the ones I sent you yesterday. If you can recruit others, please do so.
JD – sorry to hear that. Grandmothers are such special people. I complained about having to take my own shopping every Saturday. Now I really miss her. Families really lose something special when the older generation passes.
condolences, JD
It sounds like she lived a full life, JD.
May God speed your Grandmothers soul to heaven; to eternally bask in the warmth of His presence, and to be reunited with all her loved ones who went before.
And may God bless and keep you and your’s too JD.
BBH, I used to be in Club River Run on Rio San Diego.
Aw, that sucks, JD. Raising a glass to reunions. Godspeed, Grandma.
so while we’re all ramblin, RTO and I will be in D.C. sometime the next few weeks.
yay do you get to see the smithsonian? That’s one of my top 5 favorite places in the whole world.
hopefully, I’m mostly leaving the planning up to RTO. so far we’ve got the Capitol and White House scheduled.
I’m a bit surprised they’d let violent tea people like you two near the Capitol and White House.
Kick bumble fuck in the shin for me, Maggie.
smithsonian can be at least 2 days for sure… they have airplanes and dinosaurs and jewels and paintings and stuff that belonged to Abraham Lincoln and they even have their own beehive
oh, we should go see the pandas. ;D
the national aquarium in DC rocks too and it’s not necessarily going to be very crowded cause a lot of people don’t know about it hah look they has a corcodile
– K…I was in Allied Gardens/Grantville (When it was still nice)
Feets – Come to East Chicago and see the Kosciusko Street Sewer with me. It’s much better now that people are on a high fiber diet.
Tumbler up for Grandma JD, condolences for you.
OT, but interesting. They say there are no coincidences. Not sure who “they” are, but right now HBO is airing A President to Remember: JFK. Direct TV guide says right up after that on HBO is Katie Morgan: Sex Toys.
I love me some irony.
Alas, Billy Jeff can fuck a fat intern, but there will never be another Camelot.
Hell, give JFK this; The man made depraved whoring, and killing the shit out of communists all the rage. And made it “gentlemanly” while doing it. That’s hard to do.
Just saying.
Sarah Shahi is helping.
If you recognize Katie Morgan by name I’m making that tsk, tsk noise at you.
You know who you are. Perverts.
What are you watching Shahi in? Is there a new show I should know about?
Ahhh, the internet tells me there is. Fairly Legal on USA.
Which is a total play on “barely legal” whether they admit it or not.
– *perverts*???? Did someone call my name….
– Ahhhh, never mind.
They can play whatever they want with Ms Shahi. I know not of this Morgan lady. Google images beckons …
JD, glass raised. God bless you and yours.
She’ll be the one with all the cocks in her.
Thanks for the heads up on Shahi’s new show.
Somehow I suspect Bing will be more *ahem* representative JD.
I know not of this Morgan lady. Google images beckons…
You’re gonna need to switch off one or more filters.
She’ll be the one with all the cocks in her.
Okay, that was fucking funny.
Sorry for your loss JD. 90 and good health till the end is a good run to have had. May her memory be eternal.
You guys … Thanks.
Bing images were more … graphic.
Oh, and contrary to that rumor you may have heard: Rep Steve Cohen says he was not, repeat, not comparing himself to Lon Chaney. Not at all.
– I got a “you are forbidden” at that link. I had no idea Lon was still so powerful, even from the grave.
Ah, liberal art.
Katie Morgan is now on my tv butt naked in all her glory explaining pornography in the 30’s.
And yeah, I won’t lie. I was staring for a bit… until she uttered the words “dust bowl”, “wiener” and “whack off material” in the same sentence.
And then it got weird.
She started going off about lesbian nuns. Tax payer funded NEA grant, here we come.
Good grief. I’m starting to understand why the Pope had the peckers knocked off all those statues.
As a perfect segue I have The Walking Dead DVR’d. I’m just gonna watch that. Much less gore.
What? You really think he’s dead?
Mmmwwaaaaahahahahahaha!
I am sorry for your loss JD.
Don’t know about Lon, but I’m pretty sure that Bela Lugosi’s Dead.
Barrett @ 133…
Sorry. Just saw that.
Congrats. You have a filmed display of retard, group think, bad tattooed, unemployed, entitlement fuck ups who haven’t yet exhausted their parents money while claiming “anarchy” on the dirt cheap. What a joke. ‘Bout as hardcore as a Starbucks barista with dreads and a disfiguring tribal ear ring. You’re Anarchists…having a big meetin’ on the street…2,500 strong…getting the shit kicked out of you by the Po-Po.
Priceless.
Thank you for that.
You say “I” a lot Barrett. Do you know any other people?
Barrett Brown shitstains a thread almost as well as ‘feets.
Oh, back to pragmatists. These couple little paragraphs bring a smile to my stone face…
“…hair stylist in tow..” John Edwards, Mitt Romney and Barrett Brown…three coiffed dudes who wished they’d been given pussies.
Ha, Serr. That was good.
I don’t remember where I read it, but someone was yammering about how Republicans are hypocrites for wanting to repeal the Health Care dealo because they were pushing plans “exactly” like the one enacted. EXACTLY. Mitt Romney, of course, how could oppose? … and I’m thinking, isn’t his health care dealo going tits up?
Yea, Mitt Romney is on my short list for possible reasons of me staying home on nov 2012.
Romney is the Meg Whitman of 2012 I think.
I think if Team R can’t extract $16.2 billion in spending cuts at the very minimum in exchange for passing this then that will be a Very Bad Sign.
oops I mean 19.2
Serr8d and Lamont have been very funny.
You say “I” a lot Barrett. Do you know any other people?
None that he likes better, apparently, but a whole 89 according to his page of logorrhea that he linked to, but you can be a friend too if you send some cabbage to his paypal account – he is so far out on the cutting edge of the dynamics of information inflow and outflow technology he uses AOL for that.
I think, from a casual read of his manifesto of how he plans to avoid anything resembling actual work, that he needs the money for more oatmeal to put it in a sock that he stuffs in his underwear.
It may be a hipster douchebag thing not unlike a codpiece, but I am not certain, as I am a pseudo-democratic type myself.
Question, ‘feets.
Do you coif your hair ?
I have really short hair I don’t style it at all it’s short enough to where I don’t even have to brush it usually
my hair looks a lot like Jeff’s really
well no – maybe a little shorter than he’s had it lately
So I watched the press conference with Hu and O. I have nothing to add, except that an hour later I wanted to watch it again.
Ha!
For those of you that don’t subscribe to Jonah Goldberg’s G-File, you should. Good stuff. Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt is good too, and he sometimes quotes and links to this joint. Plus, they’re both free.
They’re here if your interested.
TGIF
I’ll be this guy never coiffed.
(That video is so very funny, I’ll bet you watch it twice!)
“My Peyton man-thing“. JD, are you taking notes ? )
…he is so far out on the cutting edge of the dynamics of information inflow and outflow technology he uses AOL for that.
Ouch. Just when I thought my opinion of the little man couldn’t sink any lower.
Barret, if you happen to stop by here again to check up on things: your enthusiasm for a worthy cause is admirable. That being said, you might want to take a close look at your sales strategy, and perhaps look for better ways to “help” your cause; you show a competency for team-building that is typical of the True Anarchist. Back where I come from, we put guys like you to work in the back room, stuffing envelopes or compiling lists, because having you interact with the public by telephone or door-knocking was simply counterproductive.
Lamas sabactani?
the most recent developments in internet activism/revolutionary tactics.
Internet activism, especially as regards revolutionary tactics, sounds about as practically effective as holding yourself hostage and threating not to eat until someone gives you what you want.
serr8d’s video link was funny, and I’m a fan of the guy being slammed. Let’s face it, a good beat-down transcends all.
Hilarious, serr8d. Thanks for the link.
Barrett needs a good manual from a well known organization with which some of his associates are quite familiar. One that also has workshops for practical hands on experience.
Barrett subscribes to the Pelosi/obamai school of winning friends and influencing people. You are a stupid racist sexist troglodyte. Vote for me.
My idea of hands-on transformation involves a CrankyCudgel™.
BBH, Pablo…Went through MANY excellent adventures at the old field. Sullivan Stadium, whatever…remember having my ass frozen literally to the aluminum benches in 1972!!! Ah, the good old days.
Now? I can’t afford the gas to get there never mind the tickets,parking or concessions. Oh well
JD….after today ( snow again) the best I can hoist is a glass of water, but prayers for your gamma an the rest of your family are always on tap…
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