In the time it takes you to read this post, Massassachusetts Senator John Kerry, beslippered and nestled in a heavy terrycloth bathrobe, furiously calling in Congressional favors from his suite at the Davos, Switzerland resort currently headquartering his heroic (if ultimately doomed) last-ditch effort to save the soul of progressive America from the encroachment of godbothering theocrats, will have expressed his overwhelming concern that a Samuel Alito SCOTUS confirmation would mark a “step backward for America” in the civil rights of “the coloreds, the gays, uteruses, the gimpy, the infirm, the poor, various political “dissenters,” and certain activist kittens within the left-liberal coalition”—in addition to being “an ideological coup” that will effectively “see the court’s Swing Vote™, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, replaced with a far-right ideologue”—by taking out his frustrations on the hotel’s assigned masseur, a lithe Swiss teen named Karl, by barking, in his best German, “Daß Öl unsachgemäß, Junge, und Ihre Fähigkeit mit Ihren Händen geheizt wird, ist unverzeihlich!”—and then dismissing the crestfallen youth with the demand that he “holen Sie mir einen Behälter des köstlichen Gebäcks und des heißen Kakaos, sofort!”
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But the limp-wristed republicans voted something like 98-2 to confirm Reuth Bader-Ginsberg…what is THAT?
I think I meant Ruth…
Did German sound so harsh and warlike to English speakers before the world wars?
Ach, mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
The Left has taken their admiration of ‘protest’ to the Meta-Level.
Next election cycle, the Kostifarians will be all jazzed if Kerry simply furrows his brow in anticipation of maybe asking his colleagues for a filibuster, deeming that a brave action.
Sure wish I knew German.
Sadly, it looks like Alito’s in. We welfare-state liberals and social progressives don’t like it, but we’ll have to put up with it.
For a while longer anyway….
Karl: “Ce qui ? Cessez de marmonner, vous petit homme idiot.”
I took four years of German and the only thing I remember was how well cast Werner Klemperer was.
Craig:
Roughly,
“The fact that oil is heated inappropriately, boy, and your ability with your hands is inexcusable” and
“get me a container of the koestlichen pastry and the hot cocoa, immediately”.
BabelFish. Learn it. Love it. Use it.
For a while longer anyway….
Impeach Alioto!!!!
Thank god for Bablefish!
Is it just me or does Ruth Bader Ginsburg bear more than a passing resemblance to Susan B. Anthony, only with a steelier coiffure?
Only for the rest of his life, Carl. Or yours, natch.
tw: blood, and maybe a nice olive oil.
I don’t recall John Francois Kerry’s concern over the fact that Justice Ginsberg, an avowed ACLU liberal, was ‘taking the seat’ of Justice Byron White, who’s constructionist perspective she replaced. I also don’t recall Mr. Heinz-Kerry having a fit about the Echelon Program enacted by Clinton/Gore to eavesdrop on millions of Americans cell calls, or his outrage about the hundreds of confidential FBI files being perused by Democrat political opeatives in the White House basement during Billy-Jeff’s first term.
So much for the progressives ‘concerns’ over privacy rights.
Given the lack of intellectual consistency displayed by today’s left, it’s not surprising that the voting public has removed them from power across the board at the national level. With the recent electoral wins by conservatives in Germany and Canada, it would appear that the liberals across the globe are on their way to being ‘consigned to the dustbin of history’.
(Except in a few South American banana republics where ‘progressive’dictators are attempting to recesitate their brand of ‘enlightened socialism’.
After all, just because Stalin, Mao, Kim Il-Jung, et al, effectively enslaved and murdered millions through terror and a lack of respect for basic human rights doesn’t mean that socialism doesn’t work. It just means that it hasn’t been done properly yet…..)
This is an outrage! John Kerry would never speak to hired help with the formal “Sie” or “Ihre.” He would “du” the poor lad to death.
tw: felt (seriously)
“köstlich” = “delicious, flavorful”
The other one is slightly misquoted, from Schiller’s Jungfrau der Orleans—“Against stupidity, even the Gods themselves struggle in vain.”
(“Gegen Dummheit, kämpfen die Götter selbst vergebens”, I’m pretty sure. Aber Google gibt nür Nazi-narrischkeit.)
ICH BIN EIN BERLINER!
Ich habe keine Freunde.
Jeff, if I name my next band “The Godbothering Theocrats,” do I have to pay you royalties?
‘cause that is one bitchin’ name there.
It’s true, Kerry was rather upset. Fortunately, the “happy ending” mellowed his harsh.
Until I learn German, I shall simply assume that Kerry was saying something extremely naughty. And leave it at that.
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