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The unrelenting disillusionment post

Meh. Get off my lawn.

37 Replies to “The unrelenting disillusionment post”

  1. motionview says:

    Is ‘Meh’ the sound the mini-gun makes?

  2. JHoward says:

    Personal property is so Reagan.

  3. Blake says:

    Free Speech, Man!!!

  4. Bob Reed says:

    That all depends on which end of the mini-gun you’re on motionview.

  5. dicentra says:

    Land ownership is theft, yo.

    Get off OUR lawn, you selfish capitalist running-dog scum.

  6. Pablo says:

    As long as you’re feeling down, Bunky, this will get you chuckling.

    Weinergate Grows: Another Woman Provides Sex Messages From His Account

    “I have more than 200 messages from him and they’re all explicit in nature,” she told us.

    The woman, who has volunteered as a Democratic campaign worker, said she never met the congressman.

    But in another startling claim, she claimed she once had a 30 minute phone sex session with Weiner on his government provided telephone.

    The woman said: “After a while I said to Anthony, ‘Why are writing these messages when we can just speak?’

    “I gave him my number and he called me from his office and we proceeded to talk dirty for at least 30 minutes.

    “A few days later, I tried to call him back on that number.

    “But the number wouldn’t connect to his office; instead there was a recorded message that it was an outgoing U.S. Congress line only.”

    This appears to be a different woman from the one Breitbart is talking about today. We’ll soon have one less bloodsucking piece of shit in DC, temporary though that may be.

  7. Bob Reed says:

    Being a former adademician, maybe this will provide you a few yuks

    President Obama polls numbers a nearing the levels he enjoyed in 2008, with one glaring exception: young people. Especially young white people. His approval rating is at 56 percent approval rating among people ages 18 to 29. That’s higher than the 51 percent national average, but that’s a decline of 10 points compared to the 2008 exit polls, according to the National Journal’s Ronald Brownstein report. And if you want a look into the reason for the slump in one of the demographic groups that most strongly embraced Obama in 2008, it may be this: Obama’s simply not cool anymore.

    The New York Times’ John Vinocur finds ample anecdotes to flesh out that theory at Oberlin College, a campus that prides itself for its brand of hipster left-wing activism. Among Vinocur’s data points: Four undergrad editors at The Oberlin Review signed an essay lamenting that most students had opted out of agitating, unlike alums who protested slavery and the Vietnam war. A symposium last month called “Oberlin-based Perspectives on the Obama Presidency” noted that students don’t think Obama’s cool anymore–all his cute little quirks have become grating, a polisci professor explained, and the real Obama can’t live up to their idea of him.

    http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/06/college-campuses-obamas-not-cool-anymore/38531/

    Maybe they over-reached a bit with that narrative, eh?

  8. Bob Reed says:

    adademician = academician.

    *sigh*, maybe I should have taken typing courses.

  9. DarthLevin says:

    One disadvantage of the digital age: waitress sammiches burn a lot more calories than fapping to dirty twitpics. I mean, Teddy prolly burned off half a bottle a night with his sexploits.

  10. mojo says:

    “I don’t know what it’s called, I only know the sound it makes when it kills a man.”

  11. Jeff G. says:

    All I got from that, Bob, is that somehow, in our Orwellian world, Obama’s approval numbers are on the upswing — that the morons are doubling down on their support for the end of the US and the beginning of yet another social welfare state in a sea of social welfare states.

    And there ain’t a damn thing we can do about it — if the facts on the ground (no jobs, no recovery, loss of housing equity, inflation, increased regulation, diminishment of freedoms, an imperial, presumptuous president and his equally disdainful, presumptuous, arrogant wife) can’t convince these stupid motherfuckers.

  12. cranky-d says:

    A minigun sounds like a power tool of some kind. A saw, maybe.

    Until it jams, that is.

  13. Bob Reed says:

    Yeah the whole, “Obama’s numbers are on the upswing!”, meme is being pushed pretty hard right now. I just found it to be a bit of a tell that the unwashed far left campus agitators were having trouble keeping the enthusiasm levels up.

    Just maybe all of the real factors you listed are getting through to some of da yoots, at least I hope so.

    Truly, I can’t see how Obama’s popularity could actually be increasing. Even here in NYC I hear murmurings at social functions, at the more zealous among the team dirty socialists are having to run about trying to “buck up” the fold.

    What I’m waiting to see is the point when the begin the widespread angry accusations regarding how the, as recently as last year, much ballyhooed “enlightened, smart, electorate” once again become the bunch of stupid knuckle-dragging racists that vote against their economic interests.

  14. McGehee says:

    A minigun sounds like a power tool of some kind. A saw, maybe.

    And as the B-team on “Mythbusters” demonstrated, a minigun can be used as a power sw.

  15. Bob Reed says:

    I hate to visit Weiner-world again, but from Tapper’s twitter feed:

    http://twitter.com/#!/jaketapper/statuses/77812028781244416

    4 pm could be schadenfreudeliscious. And maybe once this is over and done we can actually get back to some real business.

  16. cranky-d says:

    #11

    The theory appears to be that as long as people keep getting their “free” shit, it doesn’t matter. Cynical, but pretty much on the mark. Not enough people are ready to give up the government largess. We’ve created a very short-sighted electorate and the politicians match that mindset so they can continue to be elected. They cannot see that the party has been over for a while now, and there’s a huge mess to clean up.

  17. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Not enough people are ready to give up the government largess.

    And here I thought we were all about shared sacrifice these days.

  18. cranky-d says:

    The shared sacrifice is among those making the money that’s paying the income taxes that get doled out to those not paying income taxes after the government takes its cut off the top.

  19. guinsPen says:

    Fuck Jake Tapper.

  20. Slartibartfast says:

    This post was not the post I was hoping for. Screw this whole day, man.

  21. Swen says:

    You’ve got it all wrong. The proper phrasing is “Get off my lawn, Please.” You put extra emphasis on the “Please” by racking the slide on your 870.

  22. Bob Reed says:

    Tell us how you really feel about Tapper, guinsPen :)

    I’m only passing along the message. I keep tabs on some of these alleged reporters to see if I can spot the birth of new memes.

  23. cranky-d says:

    I don’t think Tapper deserved a “Fuck You” for that tweet. It was obviously tongue in cheek. He tends to go after everyone, from what I’ve seen.

  24. Pablo says:

    Oh dear God. Weiner has a presser scheduled for right now. The podium is set up, the press is there, the cameras are rolling, the sattelites are feeding and Andrew Fucking Breitbart is at the podium addressing the media.

    Best. Media. Day. Ever.

  25. cranky-d says:

    Here comes Teh Weiner.

  26. motionview says:

    Do you owe Breitbart an apology?

  27. cranky-d says:

    That’s enough crying for me for one day.

  28. LBascom says:

    Talk about disillusionment

  29. Remember when Anne Archer was hot? I’m watching some old movie of hers (dubbed into spanish), I have no idea what it is or what it’s about, but damn! I’m resiting the urge to IMDB because I just cant care tat much.

  30. guinsPen says:

    That was for his previous White House coirrespondence.

    And can turn his damn music down, too.

  31. sdferr says:

    I just learned there’s a minor league ballteam called the Montgomery Biscuits.

    Just that name fostered a brief, rising hope America was still alive, maybe out there in little pockets across the land.

    It winked out pretty quick though, since the particle was attached to a story of their pitching coach being shot in the thigh in a mugging outside his home.

    Oh . . . yeah . . . the real.

    Ah well, back to work.

  32. McGehee says:

    The Biscuits are in the AA Southern League along with the Chattanooga Lookouts, the Carolina Mudcats, and the team where Michael Jordan spent his first retirement, the Birmingham Barons.

  33. McGehee says:

    …the fact he played for minor-league baseball the year the major leagues were out on strike had a lot to do, I think, with the subsequent popularity of the AAA and AA clubs.

    That and the fact minor-league players aren’t a bunch of greedy prima donnas.

  34. guinsPen says:

    I heard they’re merging with the Gadsden Gravy.

  35. Slartibartfast says:

    Remember when Anne Archer was hot?

    Fatal Attraction had me wondering what the fuck Michael Douglas’ character’s dick was thinking.

  36. LBascom says:

    “Fatal Attraction had me wondering what the fuck Michael Douglas’ character’s dick was thinking.”

    Same as Arnold. It’s about getting some strange, not about hotness.

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